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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> 2. Failing that, how hard would it be to make the ~/.authinfo system
>>    smarter about PGP encryption? I have a ~/.authinfo.gpg file, but no
>>    ~/.authinfo. If I add a new backend, I'm first prompted to add the
>>    login details to ~/.authinfo, after which I have to manually copy
>>    them into the encrypted version of the file, then delete the
>>    unencrypted version. Could Gnus check for the presence of an
>>    ~/.authinfo.gpg file, and handle that gracefully?
>
> Change auth-sources to put "~/.authinfo.gpg" first.

Ah, simple enough! Sorry about that -- I probably could have figured it out...