Re: Releasing the new nnimap on y'all soon

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:06:53 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> `auth-source-create' already does this.  It's invoked when the
>> CREATE-IF-MISSING parameter to `auth-source-user-or-password' is set.
>> There's also a DELETE-EXISTING parameter there.

LMI> CREATE-IF-MISSING is being passed to the thing, but it doesn't save
LMI> anything for me.

It only creates if your sources include the Secrets API.  See
`auth-source-create'.

>> So `auth-source-create' needs to be augmented to support netrc saves, I
>> think, to provide the requested features.  It's not hard so I'll get to
>> it eventually unless someone beats me to it.

LMI> Even though a netrc file exists, shouldn't it save new passwords to the
LMI> .gpg file?

No, it will save to whatever is in the spec.  So if the spec says
'secrets then it saves to Secrets API (this is working thanks to help
from Michael Albinus).  If the spec says "filename" it saves to the
file, encrypted or not (this is not written).  It works on one
auth-sources spec at a time since only the first matching entry is
consulted, so it doesn't know if there are other specs.  It also doesn't
know if the file is encrypted or not--like I said I tried to keep
auth-source.el separate from the encryption/decryption layer.

Ted