Re: nnimap ports and protocols

[Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 01 2010,Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:


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> 3) this is saved in a new Gnus/Emacs file, called...  er...
> ~/emacs.d/emacs-memoize, which would have a format like
>
> (nnimap connection-method ("imaps" ssl))
>
> one per line, so that the user can edit it by hand, if necessary.  The
> meaning here would be DOMAIN (so that many different packages can use
> the same mechanism), TOKEN (that has some meaning in that domain), and
> the VALUE.
>
> 4) nnimap would call this with the macro
> (gnus-memoize 'nnimap 'connection-method
>   (nnimap-guess-connection-method server))
>
> So it's like a normal memoizer, only it saves stuff to a file, too.
>
> Does this sound halfway sane?

As long as a info message goes into the *Messages* buffer telling the
user where it's trying to pick up the last used method/credentials
from i.e. the file it read to guess the login method, the approach
looks good.

There's nothing quite maddening like "smart" choices made mysteriously
and you don't know where to root around to fix it. :-)



 sivaram
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