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To: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Movemail synching (POP)
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Kyle Jones writes:
>Hrvoje Niksic writes:
> > [...]
> > How come VM supports POP in such a cool fashion, BTW?
>
>Because at the time I looked at movemail's POP support, it
>converted incoming POP mail to BABYL format.  Otherwise VM would
>have used it.  I don't know if movemail still does that or not.

  Yuck.  For things this simple, I think we should always use Lisp, because
then you have one point of configuration for things like firewall support,
etc.  Just specify a single gateway method (load socks.el, tcp.el, etc) and
everything should just work.

  Otherwise, you run the risk of 'GNUS works, but VM w/POP doesn't', etc.

-Bill P.

