From: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nnimap authentication prompts?
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:09:19 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85d3mlxmeg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tyfxfedo.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>
On Mon, Feb 21 2011,Simon Josefsson wrote:
> however when I start Gnus it asks me a series of questions that confuses
> me. The first one is hostname, and I can chose between yxa and
> localhost, what does this mean? The username and password prompts are
> understandable (although shouldn't it read this from my .authinfo
> file?). The final prompt is for port and I cannot specify 1430, only
> '143' and 'imap' are valid choices. I just pressed enter and it worked
> anyway.
Apparently a fix is to be incorporated to rectify this confusing
initial setup. I believe you'd be asked only once for this and the
collected data is supposed to go into .authinfo.gpg file from where it
will be read the next time.
[...]
>
sivaram
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-21 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-21 18:09 Simon Josefsson
2011-02-21 18:39 ` Sivaram Neelakantan [this message]
2011-02-21 20:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-21 21:39 ` Simon Josefsson
2011-02-21 21:43 ` Simon Josefsson
2011-02-22 22:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 13:39 ` Simon Josefsson
2011-02-23 14:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 23:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-21 23:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-22 8:50 ` Simon Josefsson
2011-02-22 22:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 13:41 ` Simon Josefsson
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