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Reading pop3 mail with GNU emacs on Cygwin (21.2-12)
- From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud at unix dot mvs dot co dot il>
- To: "Unix on Win" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "Gnu Emacs developers" <emacs-devel at gnu dot org>, " Joe Buehler" <jbuehler at hekimian dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:54:01 +0200
- 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
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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.
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