Re: Possible to receive from pop3 with movemail asynchronously?

[Sebastian Tennant]

Quoth Michael Ekstrand <ekstrand@cs.umn.edu>:
> I've got Gnus set up to retrieve my mail from a pop3 server using
> movemail (from mailutils, for TLS support).  I'm doing this with a pop
> mail source and :program.
>
> Is there a way I can have Gnus run the movemail process
> asynchronously?  The SSL setup time on my school's server is quite
> long, and Emacs is unresponsive while movemail is running.  It'd be
> nice to be able to hit 'g' and then go edit some other file while Gnus
> gets my mail.

Alternatively run fetchmail to collect your pop3 mail and then hitting
gnus only needs to pull the mail in from /var/mail/ which is very, very
fast.

Just a suggestion.  I can't help with running movemail asynchronously.
I doubt it's possible, but I could very easily be wrong.

Sebastian