From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77050 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap authentication prompts? Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:09:19 +0530 Message-ID: <85d3mlxmeg.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87tyfxfedo.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298313599 18198 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2011 18:39:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:39:59 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25383@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Feb 21 19:39:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Prafq-0001ht-G1 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:39:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Prafc-0004GH-JR; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:39:40 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Prafa-0004Fz-Ub for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:39:38 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PrafZ-0002UE-Rx for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:39:38 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PrafW-0000I6-63 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:39:34 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PrafS-0001SQ-Er for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:39:30 +0100 Original-Received: from 122.179.46.144 ([122.179.46.144]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:39:30 +0100 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.179.46.144 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:39:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.179.46.144 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110012 (No Gnus v0.12) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QTEPs78RsFyl0ObLjLZamJs6Rhg= X-Spam-Score: 0.2 (/) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin (3.3.1 2010-03-16) analysis follows Bayesian score: 0.0000 Ham tokens: 0.000-1514--4685h-0s--0d--H*UA:Emacs, 0.000-1402--4338h-0s--0d--H*u:Emacs, 0.000-1350--4178h-0s--0d--H*UA:Gnus, 0.000-1350--4177h-0s--0d--H*u:Gnus, 0.000-1302--4029h-0s--0d--H*u:linux Spam tokens: 0.987-1--0h-1s--0d--H*r:122.179.46, 0.868-628--3151h-36836s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:quimby.gnus.org, 0.868-628--3151h-36836s--0d--H*RU:quimby.gnus.org, 0.858-333--3371h-36105s--0d--HTo:D*gnus.org, 0.847-27--3843h-37722s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-Internal:quimby.gnus.org Autolearn status: no 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is freemail (nsivaram.net[at]gmail.com) 0.0 DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED No valid author signature, adsp_override is CUSTOM_MED -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain 1.2 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO Received: contains an IP address used for HELO -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.9 NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED ADSP custom_med hit, and not from a mailing list 0.0 T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77050 Archived-At: 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 --