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movemail installed in outland to support netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yoav Yerushalmi)
Tue Feb 25 04:46:16 1997
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU, cwis-dev@MIT.EDU, bug-outland@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:45:58 EST
From: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
So.. anyway, it was suggested that a movemail be installed in outland.
So, I took the emacs-19.34 movemail sources, and compiled them again.
I made a small change in the source tree for two purposed:
1) not to run configure every time you want to compile it.
2) to support netscape-4.0 stuff. Not sure if 3.0 supported
it, but the default behavior for 4.0 seems to not support KPOP3, so
I basically made it so that if it is provided with a filename that
doesn't seem to work as a working sourcefile, it will attempt to
extract a username from it, and use that to get the mail from the
pop server. If this works, yay, if not, it still assumes it was given
a bad file name.
What this means is that this popmail may behave unexepectedly if you
provide an invalid sourcename, BUT also that you can now just tell netscape
to use that movemail with no extra overhead.
SO:
to use netscape as your default mail reading program, do the following:
(netscape-4.0b2 instructions):
bring up edit -- preferences...
click on the Mail&News triangle
choose Mail Servers.
click on the Movemail application diamond
click on the 'External Application' diamond
type in the box:
/mit/outland/libexec/movemail
and be happy
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