From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58253 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: imaps, and .authinfo port name/number? Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:12:22 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87657lh42h.fsf@dod.no> References: <87u0v8jg38.fsf@dod.no> <87r7qbhuam.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1092514548 12765 80.91.224.253 (14 Aug 2004 20:15:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 20:15:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6794@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Aug 14 22:15:42 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bw4wI-0002ja-00 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:15:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Bw4tJ-0006Ng-00; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:12:37 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Bw4tB-0006Na-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:12:29 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Bw4tB-0004ob-0g for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:12:29 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E51513A0035 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:12:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bw4t7-0000oH-00 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:12:25 +0200 Original-Received: from tz1wpq.cm.chello.no ([80.111.90.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:12:25 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by tz1wpq.cm.chello.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:12:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 49 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tz1wpq.cm.chello.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uaMCmmyZUzg4UvKGRFlRkAW6J3I= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58253 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58253 >>>>> Simon Josefsson : > The magic translation "SSL means port 993" happen inside imap.el, so > the netrc code in nnimap.el believe it will be using port 143. I > suppose this isn't ideal, but changing things will likely be > backwards incompatible. OK. A bit confusing though. Perhaps the manual should mention it? Maybe something like the diff attached at the end of this message.? > And as IMAPS is supposed to go away, I'd argue that the Right Thing > here is to use STARTTLS instead of IMAPS. Hey! I only got around to using IMAPS instead of SSH port forwarding, on Wednesday. Now you're telling me it's obsolete? :-) Index: texi/gnus.texi =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/texi/gnus.texi,v retrieving revision 7.52 diff -c -r7.52 gnus.texi *** texi/gnus.texi 12 Aug 2004 06:28:47 -0000 7.52 --- texi/gnus.texi 14 Aug 2004 20:09:54 -0000 *************** *** 16369,16375 **** A file containing credentials used to log in on servers. The format is (almost) the same as the @code{ftp} @file{~/.netrc} file. See the variable @code{nntp-authinfo-file} for exact syntax; also see ! @ref{NNTP}. @item nnimap-need-unselect-to-notice-new-mail @vindex nnimap-need-unselect-to-notice-new-mail --- 16369,16382 ---- A file containing credentials used to log in on servers. The format is (almost) the same as the @code{ftp} @file{~/.netrc} file. See the variable @code{nntp-authinfo-file} for exact syntax; also see ! @ref{NNTP}. An example of an .authinfo line for an IMAP server, is: ! ! @example ! machine students.uio.no login larsi password geheimnis port imap ! @end example ! ! Note that it should be @code{port imap}, or @code{port 143}, even if ! the actual port number used is port 997 for secure imap. @item nnimap-need-unselect-to-notice-new-mail @vindex nnimap-need-unselect-to-notice-new-mail