[Gnus] pop3-leave-mail-on-server does not work for v0.3 but for 5.10.6

[Uwe Brauer]

>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce at imap.cc> writes:

    Reiner> On Thu, Nov 11 2004, Uwe Brauer wrote:

    Reiner> My guess is, that you are using the XEmacs package of Gnus
    Reiner> 5.10.6 and thus pop3 from mail-lib/pop3.el.  When using No
    Reiner> Gnus, you probably use the file gnus/pop3.el from No Gnus
    Reiner> instead.  `M-x locate-library pop3 RET' and `M-x
    Reiner> list-load-path-shadows RET' will give you more
    Reiner> information.


You are absolutely right. It did not occur to me that gnus snap comes
with a pop3.el included

    Reiner> For compatibility with Gnus 5.9 from Emacs CVS (before
    Reiner> 2004-08-22) I had to introduce this variable in No Gnus
    Reiner> and in the stable branch (v5-10), too.  I am aware that it
    Reiner> doesn't work as expected, but we cannot use the UIDL code
    Reiner> from XEmacs[1] unless the author (who was it?) has
    Reiner> assigned the copyright to the FSF.  Reading the first
    Reiner> lines of mail-lib/pop3.el I doubt that we can use the UIDL
    Reiner> code from XEmacs in Gnus, but maybe I'm wrong.  Maybe
    Reiner> someone on xemacs-beta knows more (added in Cc).

Oops, so there is code which makes it  work, only because of copyright
reason is   not included.  This  is  the  first time  I  have seen the
consequence  of copyright issues  in practise.   Andy do  you  have an
inconvenience  filling those papers.  (I know  I  could wait till gnus
snap is an  official  XEmacs  pkg, but   since it has   superior  spam
handling..)

Uwe