Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:54:01 +0200 Message-Id: <200302191754.h1JHs1Ug002945@beta.mvs.co.il> X-Authentication-Warning: beta.mvs.co.il: ehud set sender to ehud AT unix DOT mvs DOT co DOT il using -f From: "Ehud Karni" To: "Unix on Win" Cc: "Gnu Emacs developers" , " Joe Buehler" Subject: Reading pop3 mail with GNU emacs on Cygwin (21.2-12) Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies Reply-to: ehud AT unix DOT mvs DOT co DOT il MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is a very small bug that inhibit the pop3 mechanism in rmail to work on Cygwin. The following patch fixes it. cd /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/mail/ diff -c /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/mail/rmail.el_org /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/mail/rmail.el *** /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/mail/rmail.el_org Fri Feb 22 12:51:38 2002 - --- /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/mail/rmail.el Wed Feb 19 14:02:59 2003 *************** *** 1502,1508 **** (if rmail-pop-password-required (progn (setq got-password (not (rmail-have-password))) (setq password (rmail-get-pop-password)))) ! (if (eq system-type 'windows-nt) ;; cannot have "po:" in file name (setq tofile (expand-file-name - --- 1502,1509 ---- (if rmail-pop-password-required (progn (setq got-password (not (rmail-have-password))) (setq password (rmail-get-pop-password)))) ! (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt cygwin)) ;; cannot have "po:" in file name (setq tofile (expand-file-name Diff finished at Wed Feb 19 14:30:12 Ehud. - -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ mailto:ehud AT unix DOT mvs DOT co DOT il Better Safe Than Sorry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: use http://www.keyserver.net/ to get my key (and others) iD8DBQE+U8S5LFvTvpjqOY0RAsUBAJ0TuWzriDfoHQ0xZOPz3/eymxC6dACfVOHK dMRD9tMIi121Im5Eum2ckts= =7mrl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/