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Updated to work with movemail from GNU Mailutils (rmail-pop-password, rmail-pop-password-required): Moved to rmail-obsolete group. (rmail-set-pop-password): Renamed to rmail-set-remote-password. All callers updated. (rmail-get-pop-password): Renamed to rmail-get-remote-password. Take an argument specifying whether it is POP or IMAP mailbox we are using. All callers updated. (rmail-pop-password-error): Renamed to rmail-remote-password-error. Added mailutils-specific error message. (rmail-movemail-search-path) (rmail-movemail-variant-in-use): New variables. (rmail-remote-password, rmail-remote-password-required): New customization variables. (rmail-probe,rmail-autodetect, rmail-movemail-variant-p): New functions (rmail-parse-url): New function. (rmail-get-new-mail, rmail-insert-inbox-text): Updated for use with GNU mailutils movemail.

ttn 2003-04-09

we use a C preprocesor not only in the normal compilation of .c files
into object files, but also for creating

	src/Makefile
	lib-src/Makefile

(delimited by comment "start of cpp stuff").  some cpp implementations
insert whitespace in between tokens, which explains the "$(dot)$(dot)"
and "UNEXEC_ALIAS" workarounds for unixoid systems and the bundled
tradcpp/ for vms.  [NOTE: tradcpp/ not yet checked in.]

during makefile creation, the preprocessor symbol NOT_C_CODE is defined.
this should not be defined for normal .c file compilation.

there has been discussion on eliminating this use of cpp and relying
solely on autoconf processing.  rms says to leave it be.

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