From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81774 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Setting up Dovecot [Was => Re: gnus fetching same mails again and again (pop)] Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:28:45 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87d376q3c2.fsf@dod.no> References: <87mx6hl0fo.fsf@live.com> <871untb4n5.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <87lim01ifw.fsf@Gmail.com> <87hawo17gt.fsf@Gmail.com> <87wr5gqkhs.fsf@Gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334644167 31588 80.91.229.3 (17 Apr 2012 06:29:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:29:27 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30051@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Apr 17 08:29:26 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SK1um-0000cz-FZ for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:29:24 +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 1SK1uX-0004mY-Kk; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:29:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1SK1uN-0004mF-IQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:28:59 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SK1uI-0003Fn-Vr for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:28:59 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SK1uH-0000WY-2b for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:28:53 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SK1uG-0000Hc-Un for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:28:52 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no ([84.208.231.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:28:52 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:28:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:H93gNNjOrgZ43R7ECsHWHFwYJLs= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81774 Archived-At: >>>>> Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala : > I am not sure I understand all the terminology or how it is working, Basically it's like this: if you are connecting to the IMAP server that listens to a TCP/IP port, you will need and use the authentication information (from the viewpoint of dovecot you are connecting to it from the internet (even if it is just localhost)). But if you start the imap daemon as a program and connects its standard out and in to pipes, and talk to it through the pipes, you don't need any other authentication, because it's just a program you yourself has started, reading files under your home directory (ie. owned by you).