From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: multiple POP support for RMAIL Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077408423 24377 80.91.224.253 (22 Feb 2004 00:07:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:07:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 22 01:06:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Auh96-0004sG-00 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:06:56 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Auh96-0004z7-00 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:06:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Auh8X-0005gT-RK for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 19:06:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1Auh81-0005cn-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 19:05:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1Auh7T-0005K3-34 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 19:05:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.114.245] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Auh7R-0005Bi-Og for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 19:05:14 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Thien-Thi Nguyen on Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:56:37 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20104 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20104 ttn@glug.org did a wonderful thing, with is create multiple POP support for RMAIL, but he also wrote ...there is currently no way to specify multiple passwords non-interactively. Please implement this feature: I would very much like to fetch various email accounts using POP. At the moment I can only fetch one. There are 3 others I would like to fetch. (Right now, I use lftp for those, which I do not like at all.) Unfortunately, I lack the time to type in the passwords interactively; worse, I cannot remember the passwords. I have a hard enough time remembering a password for `ssh-agent'. I should be able to specify `M-x rmail' and not have to remember any passwords. Thank you. (Sadly, Gnus is not an option for me: when I last spent several days a couple of years ago trying to configure Gnus for email, I was unable to figure out and no one was able to tell me how to configure Gnus to highlight each of the following differently, a minimum of 4 different highlighting looks for 7 different types of entity: in the *Group* buffer Summary buffer with unread new email in it Summary buffer with unread old email in it Summary buffer with only read email in it in a *Summary* buffer new unread email messages old unread email messages read email messages in any buffer that which is marked for deletion (Some faces could be specified, but not those I wanted. (Presumably, `old' is specifed in one of a choice of several ways, such as `1 day' or `since last invocation of Gnus', or `since last 4 invocations of Gnus'. I cannot remember what I chose. (Also, I looked for, but could not find a definitive statement on what to do actively to prevent automatic `expiration'. Various people assured me that the previous documentation I had read that old messages would be deleted automatically was no longer true, but no one could provide a clue to how to make sure overtly that Gnus never, ever mistook old email messages for news messages. (I know that many people use Gnus and find it wonderful. My hunch is that if I could configure it happily, I too would find it wonderful. It is all a matter of how people do their work and how important security is.) -- Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.teak.cc bob@rattlesnake.com