Re: imaps, and .authinfo port name/number?

["Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, jas@extundo.com wrote:

> The magic translation "SSL means port 993" happen inside imap.el, so
> the netrc code in nnimap.el believe it will be using port 143.  I
> suppose this isn't ideal, but changing things will likely be backwards
> incompatible.  And as IMAPS is supposed to go away, I'd argue that the
> Right Thing here is to use STARTTLS instead of IMAPS.

Maybe this patch will make things easier by just taking any 'imaps'
password and using it for 'imap' authentication (if the 'imap'
password is not given)?

Ted

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<                                    port "imap")))
---
>                                    port "imap")
>                     (netrc-machine list server port "imaps")
>                     (netrc-machine list
>                                    (or nnimap-server-address
>                                        nnimap-address)
>                                    port "imaps")))