From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75903 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [BUG] Prefer AUTH=CRAM-MD5 makes login fail in some IMAP servers. Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:30:53 -0800 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: <8762tendcy.fsf@gnus.org> References: <871v4ktya0.fsf@babel.ls.fi.upm.es> <87hbdfw1km.fsf@babel.ls.fi.upm.es> <8739ozvyn8.fsf@babel.ls.fi.upm.es> <87mxmsrb2l.fsf@gnus.org> <87tygyci2d.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8762teot0w.fsf@gnus.org> <87ei827y19.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295908296 14498 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2011 22:31:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:31:36 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24254@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jan 24 23:31:33 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 1PhUwe-00045s-93 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:31:32 +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 1PhUwb-0008CL-Mo; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:31:29 -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 1PhUwa-0008C9-Hk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:31:28 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PhUwW-0003XY-HV for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:31:28 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PhUwV-0004bt-RX for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:31:23 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PhUwV-00042g-BU for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:31:23 +0100 Original-Received: from baybryj.net ([198.144.208.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:31:23 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by baybryj.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:31:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: baybryj.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:12Rx0aO7WLyCjP6plaOU8Ii+1CI= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75903 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > It's not normally, but if the server is buggy you can't avoid it IMO. > So maybe make it a defvar and not a defcustom. Well, it'd be a defvoo, since it would be a server slot. nnimap could just try all the allowed login methods if any of them fails. But there are probably some IMAP servers that would balk at that, too. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen