Re: [h-e-w] ntemacs & gnus

[Peter Davis]

At 06:43 AM 07/17/2002, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to try gnus for a while before I decide to use it. (<sigh>,
> this was how I got hooked to emacs).  My problem is I want to use it
> ONLY for mail with a POP3 account & without deleting the mail from the
> server.  Currently, I use MS Express for mail which leaves the mail on
> the server after it downloads it.  I'd like gnus to do the same.
>
> My setup is emacs 21.1 with Gnus 5.9 on a win2k box.  Does anything
> else have to be present to enable gnus to connect to the mailserver
> and download mail?  If so,can someone tell what's required and the
> corresponding gnus setup file please.

Gnus knows how to fetch from a POP server, but it doesn't know how to leave 
mail on the server.  You can either:

- use Franklin Lee's epop3mail package, or

- use some external program like fetchmail to retrieve your mail from the 
POP server and put it in a location where gnus can find it.

A more challenging problem is getting messages to delete from the POP 
server when you delete them locally.  I'm working on a perl script to do that.

-pd




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