From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:19:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vxd69g1.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmxlucc94.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:37:35 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> But the prompts are poor:
> - for the user name, the prompt says something like "[USER?]diro:143",
> which is very cryptic. While I know why there's a "143" there,
> there's no reason to expect users to know that (my .gnus doesn't
> mention any port number). Worse: I really have no clue what the "USER?"
> is about.
Yes, it's quite cryptic.
The prompts should simply be
"User name for diro:imap: "
and
"Password for diro:imap: "
Or something like that. Well, really, the host name should be the
(real) fully qualified host name, if possible, but that may not be
feasible.
> - then I get prompted to save the password, which is the worst of the
> three:
Yes, it should just say "Save the password for future sessions? " and
not much more.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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2011-02-16 18:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-16 21:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-16 21:34 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-16 22:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-18 0:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-18 2:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-18 8:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-02-18 10:54 ` Steinar Bang
2011-02-18 20:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-18 22:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-22 21:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-18 23:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-22 22:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-16 21:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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2011-02-24 12:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-24 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-24 16:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-25 4:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-25 11:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-25 11:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-05 12:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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2011-03-08 19:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
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