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Re: Your opinion of pop3.el on m17.org?
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Sebastian Schubert |
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Re: Your opinion of pop3.el on m17.org? |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:54:12 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 22 2006, Sebastian Schubert wrote:
>
>> http://cvs.m17n.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/root/gnus/lisp/pop3.el?rev=1.6.30.21.2.3
>>
>> seems to add the possibility to use ssl with pop and to fetch mail
>> without deleting. Is there any reason not use it? If no, why not
>> integrate it into the official pop3? It would make changing from other
>> mailreader a lot easier.
>
> The copyright situation doesn't allow us to include this version, see
> the following comment near `pop3-leave-mail-on-server' in `pop3.el':
>
> ;; We can't use the UILD support from XEmacs mail-lib or cvs.m17n.org:
> ;; http://thread.gmane.org/v9lld8fml4.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de
> ;; http://thread.gmane.org/b9yy8hzy9ej.fsf@jpl.org
> ;; Any volunteer to re-implement this?
Ok...
>
> On Sun, Oct 22 2006, Sebastian Schubert wrote:
>
>> Oh, it seems that the cvs gnus supports ssl with pop3:
>> ,----[ GNUS-NEWS ]
>> | Retrieving mail with POP3 is supported over SSL/TLS and with StartTLS.
>> `----
>> I thought the cvs emacs includes the most recent cvs gnus...
>
> Gnus in CVS Emacs (Gnus 5.11) is synced with the _stable_ Gnus branch (v5-10).
V gives me 5.11 so I thought it would be the cvs version.
Thanks for your reply
Sebastian