RE: [h-e-w] Gnus, anyone?

[Peter Davis]

At 04:51 PM 12/19/2001, Karel Sprenger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At 15:32 19-12-01 -0500, Peter Davis wrote:
>
> > The seems to work, with a couple of caveats.  These are:
> >
> > 1) I kept getting void for ange-ftp-read-passwd.  Indeed, this function 
> > doesn't appear to be in ange-ftp.el.  So, I just defalias'ed it to 
> > read-passwd.  However, this prompts me for the password twice each time I 
> > check mail.  I'm sure there's a smarter way to do this, but I don't know 
> > what it is.  If anyone has a better idea, I'm open.
>
> I changed the pop3-read-passwd function in ep3m's pop3.el to:
>
> (defun pop3-read-passwd (prompt)
>   (if (not pop3-read-passwd)
>       (if (load "passwd" t)
>           (setq pop3-read-passwd 'read-passwd)
>         (cond ((= 19 emacs-major-version)
>                (autoload 'ange-ftp-read-passwd "ange-ftp")
>                (setq pop3-read-passwd 'ange-ftp-read-passwd))
>               ((<= 20 emacs-major-version)
>                ; read-passwd is defined in subr.el
>                (message "Setting pop3-read-passwd")
>                (setq pop3-read-passwd 'read-passwd)))))
>   (funcall pop3-read-passwd prompt))

Augh!  I tried changing this in my pop3.el (epop3 0.9.8), and now I'm back 
to getting

        Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size



> And then I could read my mail with emacs 21 again (I also commented out 
> the two defalias lines in epop3hash.el).

I've done this, or rather enclosed them in

(if (< emacs-major-version 21)
        ...
)


>   I still got problems with w3 though, so I still have to send this reply 
> through Eudora.  I'll post a solution that is working for me as soon as I 
> have it ready.

I haven't found any use for w3 at all.  I was able to post from Gnus before 
this last change.

-pd