Hi Karel,
I use epop3 + rmail to read emails by
ntemacs. I found out the epop3
and ntemacs 21 are not friends.
I cannot even load it. This blocks
me from upgrading to emacs
21.
Questions:
1. Is there any way to fix epop3 to work with
ntemacs 21?
2. What will be the closest alternative to rmail +
epop3
if the answer to 1 is negative.
3. I thought of VM -
does it support multiple pop3 mail boxes?
Can it br used with
ntemacs 21?
Thanks,
Sprenger, Karel
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> Hi,
>
=20
> I had a perfectly working gnus with since emacs 19.43 in
combination
> with epop3-mail, but epop3-mail can't be used with emacs
21.1 as it
> tries to defalias two now builtin functions. I have
been trying to get
> this fixed, but are having trouble with the
mail-source function. So I
> am very interested in a standard gnus
which obviates the need for
> epop3-mail, and was very happy to read
Bill's message. However, I just
> did a grep in the emacs/lisp/gnus
directory for
> pop3-leave-mail-on-server and it is simply not mentioned
anywhere. This
> is in the NTemacs 21.1 distribution that uses
gnus 5.9.0. In what
> version of gnus can you leave the mail
on the server?
> =20
> Cheers,
> Karel
>
>
-----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Pringlemeir [mailto:address@hidden]
>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 15:21
> To: Paul Kinnucan
> Cc:
Peter Davis; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Gnus,
anyone?
>
>
>
>
> >>>> Peter Davis
writes:
>
> >> 1) I can't get messages to print to a
network printer.
>
> I don't think this is Gnus
specific.
>
> >> 2) I can't get it to leave mail on a
POP3 server so I can read it
> >> from multiple
locations. (I've read that epop3mail is able to do
>
>> this, but I have not gotten it to work.)
>
> See docs for
`mail-sources',
> (pop :server
"pop3.mailserver.com" :user "myname")
>
> This use to leave mail
on a pop server,
> (setq
pop3-leave-mail-on-server t)
>
> At any rate, IMAP is far superior
for this. I use IMAP at home to my
> email server at work. I
use POP to get mail at work. I can view new
> mail when I am at
home this way, and don't keep any work information
> on my home
PC. I found that it was a large waste of disk space to
> keep all
email in two places. My home PC runs Linux and my work PC
> uses
NT; both are running Emacs and Gnus.
>
> >> 3) I can't
get it to do the "right thing" with HTML mail, which
> >>
would be to allow me to either display it as plain text, or to
>
>> open a browser (*not* W3) to display it.
>
> I generally
discard it.
>
> ;; Show plain text over markup.
> (setq
mm-discouraged-alternatives
>
(append mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html"
>
"text/richtext")))
> (setq gnus-article-wash-html nil)
> (setq
mm-inline-override-types '("text/html"))
>
> >>>>>
"PK" =3D=3D Paul Kinnucan <address@hidden>
writes:
>
> PK> I'm a bit further down this path than
you. I tried the gnus for
> PK> news and email route and hated
it almost instantly. I now use the
> PK> right tool for the
right job, namely gnus for news and vm for
> PK> email. I
cannot recommend vm highly enough. It is a full-fledged
> PK>
email client, with folders, attachments, and pop3
>
> VM is
probably an easier route. I think that this highly depends on
>
the amount of mailing list that you subscribe to. There is very
>
little difference between a news group and a mailing list IMHO.
In
> this case all of the features of Gnus (like scoring, etc) help
in
> managing large amounts of email. Also, using one client for
both mail
> and news is nice from the stand point of having to learn
only one
> package. Although emacs packages are usually very good
at keeping the
> default key bindings uniform.
>
> It was
very difficult to setup Gnus to read email the way I wanted.
> It took a
long time, with many intermediate steps. I think it was
> well
worth it though. The good thing is that Gnus understands many
>
different mail backends and you can `import' the mail messages at any
>
later time. `gnu.emacs.gnus' would probably be a much more helpful
>
place than here for resolving Gnus issues.
>
> I have been using
Gnus since July 1998 according to Google/Deja, so
> take my advice in
that context. Anyways, the message is more
> important than the
MUA ;-)
>
> regards,
> Bill
Pringlemeir.
>
>
>
>
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Yigal