Re: fakemail.exe and emacs 21.1

[Thomas Gehrlein]

eliz@is.elta.co.il (Eli Zaretskii) writes:

> On 23 Oct 2001, Gerd Moellmann wrote:
> 
> > > > > I copied fakemail.exe from emacs-20.7/bin/fakemail.exe to
> > > > > emacs-21.1/bin/fakemail.exe and everything works fine.
> > > > 
> > > > Is that Windows or MS-DOS?

Win98SE

> So what _I_ would like to understand in this case is how come fakemail 
> was at all necessary?

I'm not sure it's actually _necessary_ but emacs told me it's not there.  So I
assumed emacs needs it.

> Thomas, can you please look into this?  I suspect 
> your email setup is botched somehow, and using fakemail actually does 
> more harm than it solves.

Hope it doesn't do me any harm!

Just to get this right: I'm talking about news, not about mail.  I know that
Gnus can handle both, but I use Pegasus Mail for my mail and Gnus for news.  So
I'm not sure about the "email setup" you mention.

I could "look into this", but I'm not sure what "this" is, nor how to look into
it.  Any hints from you guys?  (I could remove fakemail from the emacs 20.5 bin
directory and see if it causes problems, or I could M-x toggle-debug-on-error
and reproduce the bug.  Do you think this would help?

Thanks for you replies and thank for emacs 21.1.

Thomas



Anyway, this is the mail related stuff from my .emacs:

(setq user-mail-address "Thomas.Gehrlein@t-online.de")
(setq user-full-name "Thomas Gehrlein")

;;; Note: I do not use VM
;;; vm
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/my-site-lisp/vm.elc-6.93")
(autoload 'vm "vm" "Start VM on your primary inbox." t)
(autoload 'vm-visit-folder "vm" "Start VM on an arbitrary folder." t)
(autoload 'vm-mail "vm" "Send a mail message using VM." t)
(autoload 'vm-submit-bug-report "vm" "Send a bug report about VM." t)



This is my .gnus (mainly trial and error and/or stolen from somebody else.

;;-*- mode: emacs-lisp; change-log-default-name: "~/.emacs-ChangeLog" -*-

;;; when the disk is full:

;; `gnus-agent-expire' command that will expire all read articles that are
;; older than `gnus-agent-expire-days' days.  It can be run whenever you
;; feel that you're running out of space.  It's not particularly fast or
;; efficient, and it's not a particularly good idea to interrupt it (with
;; `C-g' or anything else) once you've started it.


;;; don't ask the server for new groups at start-up
;; I don't care if I miss a few new groups
;; to find new groups do M-x gnus-find-new-newsgroups
(setq gnus-find-new-newsgroups nil)
(setq gnus-save-killed-list nil)
;; will save time both at startup, at exit, and all over.

;; von Zeit zu Zeit mal ~\news aufräumen und `gnus-agent-expire' aufrufen


(setq gnus-directory "~/news/"
      gnus-agent-expire-days 0          ;(gnus-agent-expire) expires postings
                                        ;that are older than
                                        ;gnus-agent-expire-days
      gnus-agent-expire-all nil)        ;only read articles are expired


;;;caching articles (I want my articles on my local HD, since I have a
;;;dial-up connection)
(setq gnus-use-cache t)
(setq gnus-cache-directory "~/news/cache/")

;; download all articles up to 600 lines -- does this work.
(setq gnus-agent-long-article 600)

;; So I can start reading while gnus is down-loading the messages
;; don't like it
;;(setq gnus-asynchronous t)


;;gnus-directory is set to "~/news/" in .emacs (cf. help on gnus-directory)
;;(setq gnus-cache-enter-articles (ticked dormant)) ;is default
;;(setq gnus-cache-remove-articles (read)) ;is default


;;making articles persistent
; * - Make the current article persistent (gnus-cache-enter-article)


;;;selecting the newsserver
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.btx.dtag.de"))
(setq gnus-post-method '(nntp "news.btx.dtag.de"))

; id-nummer lt. t-online, Beispiel:
;<36753D02.BE28BEE6@061518659931-1000.dialin.t-online.de>
; Wäre bei mir:
; <36753D02.BE28BEE6@3200846177829-1000.dialin.t-online.de>

; T-Online stellt seinen Benutzern einen Newsserver zur Verfügung. Dieser 
; Newsserver ist unter dem Namen news.btx.dtag.de zu erreichen.

;;; Von: Stefanie Teufel http://linux01.gwdg.de/~steufel/steffi-xemacs.html
(setq message-from-style 'angles)
(setq user-mail-address "thomas.gehrlein@t-online.de")
(setq mail-host-address "t-online.de")
;;(setq message-syntax-checks '((sender . disabled)))
;;Documentation: Don't touch this variable unless you really know what you're
;;doing.

(setq user-full-name "Thomas Gehrlein")

(setq message-generate-headers-first t)

;;; gnus unplugged
; Then, put the following magical incantation at the end of your
; `.gnus.el' file:

(gnus-agentize)