Re: Your opinion of pop3.el on m17.org?

[Sebastian Schubert]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 22 2006, Sebastian Schubert wrote:
>
>> http://cvs.m17n.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/root/gnus/lisp/pop3.el?rev=1.6.30.21.2.3
>>
>> seems to add the possibility to use ssl with pop and to fetch mail
>> without deleting. Is there any reason not use it? If no, why not
>> integrate it into the official pop3? It would make changing from other
>> mailreader a lot easier.
>
> The copyright situation doesn't allow us to include this version, see
> the following comment near `pop3-leave-mail-on-server' in `pop3.el':
>
>   ;; We can't use the UILD support from XEmacs mail-lib or cvs.m17n.org:
>   ;; http://thread.gmane.org/v9lld8fml4.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de
>   ;; http://thread.gmane.org/b9yy8hzy9ej.fsf@jpl.org
>   ;; Any volunteer to re-implement this?

Ok...

>
> On Sun, Oct 22 2006, Sebastian Schubert wrote:
>
>> Oh, it seems that the cvs gnus supports ssl with pop3:
>> ,----[ GNUS-NEWS ]
>> | Retrieving mail with POP3 is supported over SSL/TLS and with StartTLS.
>> `---- 
>> I thought the cvs emacs includes the most recent cvs gnus... 
>
> Gnus in CVS Emacs (Gnus 5.11) is synced with the _stable_ Gnus branch (v5-10).

V gives me 5.11 so I thought it would be the cvs version.


Thanks for your reply

Sebastian