From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76867 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Making Gnus ask my IMAP username and password after the recent auth-source changes Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:44:37 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87d3mqj36i.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87sjvq127b.fsf@gmail.com> <878vxhmmvj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tyg53tju.fsf@gmail.com> <87ipwj4wu8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hbc39vwe.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297943112 5251 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2011 11:45:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:45:12 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25206@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 17 12:45:09 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 1Pq2IG-0001B8-FT for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:45:08 +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 1Pq2I2-0005km-FJ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:44:54 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq2I0-0005kQ-Ga for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:44:52 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq2Hz-0000t2-M6 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:44:52 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq2Hy-0008K8-Uy for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:44:50 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq2Hy-00011D-O7 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:44:50 +0100 Original-Received: from c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([67.186.102.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:44:50 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:44:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2uZxqAcB/mNrbkEvNT/mHhfc4Dw= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76867 Archived-At: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:34:25 -0200 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: RKdC> I am still wondering if the prompts I get are better than the old one, RKdC> though -- the old code used to infer the port from my ~/.gnus (via RKdC> nnimap-server-port), This can be helped with `auth-source-creation-defaults'. I will add a default to the first port to `nnimap-credentials'. I also changed :protocol to :port everywhere; I realized I was getting confused between the two so it was safer to go with :port. If I'm getting confused, imagine the poor API users :) RKdC> and did not show the password in clear text when asking to store RKdC> the data in ~/.authinfo.gpg. Is it possible to at least hide the RKdC> password in the last prompt? Hmm. But then you couldn't see the actual line that was added. I'm not sure what's the right thing here. Ted