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Re: [h-e-w] Gnus, anyone?
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Peter Davis |
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Re: [h-e-w] Gnus, anyone? |
Date: |
19 Dec 2001 17:21:08 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
Peter Davis <address@hidden> writes:
> 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
Nope. I lied. This error didn't come from Karel's change to pop3.el.
It came from the fact that I byte-compiled the epop3mail files. I
don't know why, but that broke something. Leaving them as .el files
seems to work.
That said, Karel's change does seem to work, but I still get prompted
twice for my passwords. Oh well.
-pd
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- Re: [h-e-w] Gnus, anyone?, (continued)
- Re: [h-e-w] Gnus, anyone?, Peter Davis, 2001/12/18
- RE: [h-e-w] Gnus, anyone?, Sprenger, Karel, 2001/12/18
- RE: [h-e-w] Gnus, anyone?, Sprenger, Karel, 2001/12/19
- RE: [h-e-w] Gnus, anyone?, Peter Davis, 2001/12/19
- Re: [h-e-w] Gnus, anyone?, Karel Sprenger, 2001/12/24