Re: auth-source problem

[nyc4bos@aol.com]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:28:20 -0500 nyc4bos@aol.com wrote: 
>
> n> One issue I still have though:
> n> The prompt says:
> n>    IMAP user at imap.gmail.com:
> n> I think that the prompt should have the default user showing.
>
> Ah, yes.  Oops.  I forgot to put "(default nyc4bos)" in the prompt, even
> though it was acceptable as a default already.  Your guess was right.
> The prompt is fixed.
>
> n> Before, you were able to specify in your gnus-(secondary)-select-methods:
>
> n> ...
> n>         (nnimap "aol"
> n>                 (nnimap-address "imap.aim.com")
> n>                 (nnimap-server-port 993)
> n>                 (nnimap-stream ssl)
> n>                 (imap-default-user "nyc4bos"))
>
>
> n> This was when nnimap used imap.el but I think a `nnimap-username' should
> n> be defined (`nil' as the default, meaning use '(user-login-name)' as per
> n> auth-source.el if found in authinfo(.gpg), netrc, or `nnimap-username'
> n> is not set).
>
> Yes, that's how it should work.  Let me know if it doesn't.

I think you need to modify auth-source.el from this:

                        (user-login-name))

to this:

                        (if (not nnimap-username)
                          (user-login-name)
                            nnimap-username))

in order to get the prompting to work.

>
> n> I think you also rseponded to Stefan in bug#8050 that you fixed
> n> this (showing the default user) but I can't seem to find that patch
> n> in either git or bzr as of yet).
>
> The commits are 57a4bf164075fe2c36b4a311a3199229ac29a460 and
> 219e1b4f2ae915ca712ed4fb049dde83cf3f6a35.
>
> Thanks for your patience.

Thanks for your efforts with auth-source.el !

> Ted