Re: tlug: XEmacs and Kanji detection

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

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>>>>> "Craig" == C Oda <craig@example.com> writes:

    Craig> BTW, I got fetchmail to work again.  Evidently, the
    Craig> implementation of IMAP is pretty rudimentary.  It doesn't
    Craig> detect the "read" flag correctly.  If I specify "fetchall,"
    Craig> it will get all my mail.  This kind of reduces the
    Craig> advantages of using IMAP over POP, but at least I can start
    Craig> reading my mail again.

As far as I could tell fetchmail was never intended to implement IMAP,
just to allow you to use IMAP as an interface with about the same
capabilities as SMTP.  This is a convenience for the server.  ESR's
Freeware page (http://locke.ccil.org:80/~esr/esr-freeware.html) states
this explicitly:

    This is a full-featured, robust and very configurable
    POP2/POP3/APOP/IMAP mail forwarder. It's designed to pick up mail
    from a mail server host and deliver it just as though it had
    arrived on your client machine via SMTP.

IMAP backends for most popular Emacs MUAs should start appearing
shortly, since IMAP is becoming a pretty hot topic.  You could also
write to Mark Crispin (who wrote IMAP) at the University of Washington
and see what he knows about it.  (See the IMAP docs for his address.)

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                            Stephen J. Turnbull
Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences                    Yaseppochi-Gumi
University of Tsukuba                      http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/
Tel: +81 (298) 53-5091;  Fax: 55-3849              turnbull@example.com
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