From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Making Gnus ask my IMAP username and password after the recent auth-source changes
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:52:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3mj3zfs.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbbvybwp.fsf@lifelogs.com>
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> This is now the case. Any parameters with a nil or t value will be
> omitted from the saved line. The password is the only one we will ask
> for.
It needs to ask for the user name, too, doesn't it?
With this call:
(nnimap-credentials "foo" '("imap" "imaps"))
I get this prompt, which is still confusing (in addition to not
prompting for the user name):
Password for [any user]@foo:(imap, imaps)?
It should say
"imap user name at foo: "
and
"imap password for larsi at foo: "
In my opinion, that's pretty understandable. (And it takes the port
name from the first entry in the list of ports.)
In addition, the prompt you get afterwords is still way to complicated.
nnimap has decided what port number to put into the line, so offering to
edit the line at all is just confusing. If the user wants to edit the
stuff, the user knows that they can just edit the ~/.authinfo file
themselves.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-23 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-15 2:06 Raphael Kubo da Costa
2011-02-15 13:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-15 20:57 ` Raphael Kubo da Costa
2011-02-16 19:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-16 20:39 ` Matt Lundin
2011-02-16 20:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 1:15 ` Matt Lundin
2011-02-17 11:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 13:49 ` Matt Lundin
2011-02-17 14:20 ` Matt Lundin
2011-02-17 15:22 ` Steinar Bang
2011-02-18 20:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-21 19:40 ` Steinar Bang
2011-02-17 3:34 ` Raphael Kubo da Costa
2011-02-17 11:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 13:34 ` Raphael Kubo da Costa
2011-02-17 14:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 23:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-18 20:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-18 23:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-22 21:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 8:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-02-23 14:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 17:00 ` Raphael Kubo da Costa
2011-02-23 17:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 17:56 ` Raphael Kubo da Costa
2011-02-23 18:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-25 4:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-25 11:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-05 12:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-08 18:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-15 16:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-15 16:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 23:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-23 23:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-24 5:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-24 11:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-24 13:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-24 13:48 ` Raphael Kubo da Costa
2011-02-24 16:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-25 4:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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