multiple pop-boxes in emacs

multiple pop-boxes in emacs

[Daan Hoogland]

H,

I currently using mew. I want to open several mailboxes through
pop3/pop3s or imap/imaps. I don't seem to be able to do this with
mew. Can anybody tell me if this is at all possible with a emacs mail
reader?

thanks,
Daan

Re: multiple pop-boxes in emacs

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Feb 16 2004, Daan Hoogland wrote:

> I currently using mew. I want to open several mailboxes through
> pop3/pop3s or imap/imaps. I don't seem to be able to do this with
> mew. Can anybody tell me if this is at all possible with a emacs mail
> reader?

Should be possible with Gnus (though I don't know what exactly you
mean with pop3s and imaps).  See the manual (info "(gnus)Mail Source
Specifiers") and (info "(gnus)IMAP") for details.

Emacs 21.3 has Gnus 5.9.  But I'd recommend to upgrade to Gnus 5.10.6,
especially when using IMAP.

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: multiple pop-boxes in emacs

[Ehud Karni]

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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:30:52 +0000 (GMT), Daan Hoogland <emacs@onecht.net> wrote:
>
> I currently using mew. I want to open several mailboxes through
> pop3/pop3s or imap/imaps. I don't seem to be able to do this with
> mew. Can anybody tell me if this is at all possible with a emacs mail
> reader?

I use rmail and have defined a command that adds the mail from a pop
account into the rmail buffer.

(defun rmail-get-new-mail-from-pop (pop-host pop-user pop-pass)
  "Get mail from pop server into current rmail file
Accepts 3 parameters (strings):
    POP-HOST - host name of pop server
    POP-USER - login name of mail user
    POP-PASS - password of mail account"
  (interactive "sPOP host name: \nsUser name: \nsMail password: ")
       (let ((sv-host (getenv "MAILHOST"))
             (sv-p-inbox rmail-primary-inbox-list)
             (sv-pass rmail-pop-password)
             (rmail-pop-password-required (not (null pop-pass)))
            )
           (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list (list (concat "po:" pop-user)))
           (rmail-set-pop-password pop-pass)
           (setenv "MAILHOST" pop-host)            ;; pop host name
           (rmail)                                 ;; get mail from pop (rmail)
           (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list sv-p-inbox)
           (setq rmail-pop-password sv-pass)
           (setenv "MAILHOST" sv-host)))           ;; restore host name


I also defined a command for each of my pop mailbox like this:

(defun read-pop-acct-1  () "pop mail from account 1"
  (interactive)
       (require 'rmail)
       (rmail-get-new-mail-from-pop
           "pop.host.url" "acct" "passwd"))

Ehud.


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