From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Michael Reilly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Rmail, IMAP and movemail.mailutils Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:36:02 -0400 Message-ID: <48AA1572.3070906@pajato.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219106226 21600 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2008 00:37:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:37:06 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 19 02:37:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KVFET-0001mZ-TB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:37:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56641 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVFDW-0002JP-PV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:36:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVFDS-0002Gg-Ea for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:36:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVFDQ-0002DM-Ng for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:36:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46633 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVFDQ-0002D8-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:36:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.pajato.com ([68.191.253.210]:47156 helo=copa.pajato.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KVFDQ-0001kT-K4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:36:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.100.14] (68-191-253-213.static.oxfr.ma.charter.com [68.191.253.213]) (authenticated bits=0) by copa.pajato.com (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7J0apot026447 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:36:51 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (copa.pajato.com [68.191.253.210]); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:36:51 -0400 (EDT) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102616 Archived-At: I suspect there is a sordid history here but Google is not revealing it. I want to access my IMAP server to process my mail and according to the documentation for Emacs movemail, it only handles POP whereas Gnu Mailutils has a version of movemail that does handle IMAP. Now why would we not want to provide IMAP access for Rmail out of the box? I certainly do. Is there some history here I should be aware of? I'm inclined to figure out what is necessary to add to Emacs movemail so that it can fetch IMAP mail. I do realize that adding IMAP support to Rmail is more complex than the initial fetch, but it certainly is a good place to start. No? -pmr