Reading pop3 mail with GNU emacs on Cygwin (21.2-12)

[Ehud Karni]

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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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