From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77176 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general 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 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: <87d3mj3zfs.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87sjvq127b.fsf@gmail.com> <878vxhmmvj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tyg53tju.fsf@gmail.com> <87ipwj4wu8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hbc39vwe.fsf@gmail.com> <87d3mqj36i.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aahu3fwp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87pqqq8bfk.fsf@gnus.org> <87zkptw0ws.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwrl0wj6.fsf@gnus.org> <87hbbvybwp.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298451328 14930 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2011 08:55:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:55:28 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25509@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Feb 23 09:55:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PsAVE-0003fs-QB for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:55:21 +0100 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 1PsAVA-00017o-C1; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:55:16 -0600 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 1PsAV8-00017J-Dm for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:55:14 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PsAV4-0000Nm-1L for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:55:14 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PsAV3-0002hr-AD for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:55:09 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PsAUz-0003Wa-VE for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:55:06 +0100 Original-Received: from baybryj.net ([198.144.208.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:55:05 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by baybryj.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:55:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: baybryj.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BxTkp745HEVhh+1NEEReS14TwII= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77176 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov 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