From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67089 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaus Rath Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Plaintext authentication? Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:52:06 +0200 Message-ID: <871w2g62tl.fsf@nokile.rath.org> References: <87fxqx2vvo.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214754697 17264 80.91.229.12 (29 Jun 2008 15:51:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:51:37 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15555@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jun 29 17:52:23 2008 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 4.50) id 1KCzCN-0003q1-3M for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:52:19 +0200 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 1KCzBF-0000LT-6W; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:51:09 -0500 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 1KCstW-0008A5-Lw for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:08:26 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KCstQ-0005J0-Id for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:08:26 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1KCstg-0006MO-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:08:36 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KCstL-000446-N9 for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:08:15 +0000 Original-Received: from dslb-092-073-133-036.pools.arcor-ip.net ([92.73.133.36]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:08:15 +0000 Original-Received: from Nikolaus by dslb-092-073-133-036.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:08:15 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-092-073-133-036.pools.arcor-ip.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:33tYUPNYR69HZ3C0HHzvoATbOX8= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67089 Archived-At: Alejandro Benitez writes: > Hi, > Gnus v5.13. > Does the following mean that my password is transmitted plaintext? > > Reading active file from gmail via nnimap... > Opening nnimap server on gmail... > imap: Connecting to imap.gmail.com... > imap: Opening SSL connection with `openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect %s:%p'...done > Waiting for response from imap.gmail.com...done > Parsing authinfo file `~/.authinfo'. > imap: Authenticating to `imap.gmail.com' using `login'... > imap: Plaintext authentication... > imap: Authenticating to `imap.gmail.com' using `login'...done You are using the LOGIN method, which sends the plain password over the IMAP connection. However, your entire IMAP connection is SSL encrypted, so you shouldn't worry. AFAIK, of course. Best, -Nikolaus -- Nikolaus@rath.org | College Ring 6, 28759 Bremen, Germany Class of 2008 - Physics | Jacobs University Bremen »My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.«