Re: How to access email using gnus?

[Glyn Millington]

Surendra Singhi <efuzzyone@netscape.net> writes:

> I checked gnus faq at
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/gnus-faq/
>
> but there is no question 3.11.

Then its an old version of the FAQ. 

3.11 is below ...

hth

Glyn


Question 3.11:
..............

Can I tell Gnus not to delete the mails on the server it  retrieves via
POP3?

   Answer:

   First of all, that's not the way POP3 is intended to work,  if you
have the possibility, you should use the IMAP  Protocol if you want
your messages to stay on the  server. Nevertheless there might be
situations where you  need the feature, but sadly Gnus itself has no
predefined  functionality to do so.

   However this is Gnus county so there are possibilities to  achieve
what you want. The easiest way is to get an external  program which
retrieves copies of the mail and stores them  on disk, so Gnus can read
it from there. On Unix systems you  could use e.g. fetchmail for this,
on MS Windows you can use  Hamster, an excellent local news and mail
server.

   The other solution would be, to replace the method Gnus  uses to get
mail from POP3 servers by one which is capable  of leaving the mail on
the server. If you use XEmacs, get  the package mail-lib, it includes
an enhanced pop3.el,  look in the file, there's documentation on how to
tell  Gnus to use it and not to delete the retrieved mail. For  GNU
Emacs look for the file epop3.el which can do the same  (If you know
the home of this file, please send me an  e-mail). You can also tell
Gnus to use an external program  (e.g. fetchmail) to fetch your mail,
see the info node  "Mail Source Specifiers" in the Gnus manual on how
to do  it.