Using POP spool file

[Uday Reddy]

Alan Wehmann reports (private message, 2012-02-12)

I decided to access pop.gmail.com, rather than use the imap server
imap.googlemail.com. I couldn't make it work in VM 8.2.0b1, but I
could make it work with VM 8.1.1. All I changed when going back and
forth was the load-path.
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So, I visted ~/INBOX and then did "g" (vm-get-new-mail). The result
was that I was asked for the password for pop.gmail.com. The first
time I did this there wasn't new mail. In a later session I actually
pulled two emails from the gmail server.

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Notes:

The problem is that the commands `vm' etc. do not use interactive setting correctly.

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Fix committed in rev. 1362.

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Further fix commited in rev. 1368.

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Alan reports (viewmail-info, 2012-04-04)

I tried out some of what is described in Info node "External Messages"
yesterday. I chose to limit message size to 50K bytes and I used the
IMAP server at work. Since I am used to how Thunderbird implements
its size limitations I was surprised to find myself being asked yes or
no for each over-sized message.

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

It looks like this is happening because we have changed the automatic
`vm-get-new-mail' to be regarded as an "interactive" use so that people can
type in passwords when they do `M-x vm'. So, it now asks yes/no questions
during `M-x vm' as well.

I guess I will need to add another flag to say that it is ok to ask for
password, but not ok to ask yes/no questions.

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Fix committed in rev. 1489.

[Alan Wehmann (alan-wehmann)]

I did a test on an IMAP server at email.fnal.gov, with the following settings:

"vm-primary-inbox is imap-ssl:email.fnal.gov:993:inbox:login:wehmann:*
vm-imap-account-alist is ((imap-ssl:email.fnal.gov:993:login:wehmann:* fermi_email))
vm-enable-external-messages is (imap)
vm-imap-max-message-size is 50000
vm-imap-sync-on-get is nil
tls-program is (gnutls-cli --x509cafile /usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt --insecure -p %p %h)"

My Emacs is "GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2012-08-28 on MARVIN"

I am using the trunk version of VM, at revision level 1490.

I sent to the IMAP server three emails with files attached that were larger than 50K. When I got new mail from that server, with VM, I was not asked any question about the large files. My conclusion is that the bug I reported is fixed.

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Brilliant! Thanks very much Alan.