Top Document: Gnus (Emacs Newsreader) FAQ Previous Document: Q4.15 Can I read mail that was delivered by qmail? Next Document: Q4.17 My splitting rules seem to miss a few messages. Why? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Why would you want to use pop3.el instead of an external movemail? Richard Pieri <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> says: It does not require an external program, which is important on certain versions of Emacs running on certain operating systems that cannot properly handle inferior processes. It has a running count, x of y, of messages downloaded; feedback on a process is always a good thing. It does not convert your incoming mailbox to Babyl format. It does not pass password information to an external process insecurely. Why would you not want to use pop3.el instead of an external movemail? It does not handle multiple maildrops, so if you get your mail from multiple POP servers, or from a POP server and a local spool, it may not work right. A fix is on the to-do list. If you use an "expensive" authentication scheme such as KPOP (Kerberized POP). KPOP is not going to happen until such time as Kerberos is incorporated directly into Emacs. Using pop3.el Configure Gnus to use the external movemail program per documentation, then add the following line to your ~/.gnus: (setq nnmail-movemail-program 'nnmail-pop3-movemail) The following variables may need to be set manually if they are not inherited from your environment (or are simply incorrect or undefined). pop3-maildrop Your POP3 login name. Inherited from user-login-name, $LOGNAME, $USER; otherwise nil. Change this if your POP login is different from your local login. pop3-mailhost Server from which you get your mail. Inherited from $MAILHOST; otherwise nil. pop3-port Port your POP3 server is on. Defaults to 110. nnmail-pop-password-required 't' if you need to supply a password. Defaults to nil. You will probably need to make this 't'. pop3-authentication-scheme authentication scheme, either 'pass or 'apop. pop3.el/nnmail-pop3-movemail currently does not support multiple maildrops. User Contributions:Top Document: Gnus (Emacs Newsreader) FAQ Previous Document: Q4.15 Can I read mail that was delivered by qmail? Next Document: Q4.17 My splitting rules seem to miss a few messages. Why? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Justin Sheehy <dworkin@ccs.neu.edu>
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