From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: movemail on Debian Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 17:59:33 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053450854 26051 80.91.224.249 (20 May 2003 17:14:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 17:14:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 20 19:14:11 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19IAYB-00064a-00 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 19:05:19 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19IAiY-0004U9-00 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 19:16:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19IAVE-0003B1-Oz for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 20 May 2003 13:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19IATL-0002VX-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 May 2003 13:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19IAT9-0002Jj-Od for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 May 2003 13:00:08 -0400 Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk ([148.79.80.39]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19IASc-0001xa-Ov; Tue, 20 May 2003 12:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19IASb-0001Oa-00; Tue, 20 May 2003 17:59:33 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 05 May 2003 15:10:29 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14019 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14019 Richard Stallman writes: > I'd rather leave it to the movemail maintainer or someone else. [It > still needs re-writing so the locking mechanism is selectable at > runtime, as discussed some time ago, which is the reason I don't use > it.] > > I don't know if anyone else will do it. A run-time decision is the > right thing, but your change would be better than nothing. So could > you adapt it to the trunk and install it, please? I've done this, with a heavy heart, but I still don't know for sure it's right. > Someone else can always improve it later, if we find someone to do it. Why isn't movemail maintained with, or integrated into, mailutils? It would presumably be a trivial job to assemble it from mailutils components, and then would get things like APOP support automatically (currently missing and what I need to fetch mail from GNU, for instance).