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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
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 12:56:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipwalgun.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ik3hof$5mt$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:56:26 -0300 Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito@gmail.com> wrote: 

RKdC> This is my ~/.authinfo:

RKdC> machine imap.gmail.com login XXXX port 993

RKdC> When I lauch Gnus, it asks me if I want to carry on after a failed login 
RKdC> attempt. No password was asked. *Messages* shows this:

RKdC> auth-source-search: found 3 backends matching (:max 1 :host 
RKdC> ("imap.gmail.com" "Personal") :port ("143" "993" "imap" "imaps") :create t)

RKdC> auth-source-search-backend: got 1 (max 1) in netrc:~/.authinfo matching 
RKdC> (:max 1 :host ("imap.gmail.com" "Personal") :port ("143" "993" "imap" 
RKdC> "imaps") :create t)

RKdC> auth-source-search: found 1 results (max 1) matching (:max 1 :host 
RKdC> ("imap.gmail.com" "Personal") :port ("143" "993" "imap" "imaps") :create t)

RKdC> nnimap (Personal) open error: 'NO (AUTHENTICATIONFAILED) Invalid credentials 
RKdC> (Failure)'.  Continue? (y or n) 

RKdC> Couldn't open server on Personal

nnimap.el should handle the case where the returned info doesn't have a
password.  There are cases where IMAP servers do not require a password,
so it would not be appropriate to ask in `nnimap-credentials'.  I think
the change needs to be made in `nnimap-login', replacing all instances
of `password' with `(nnimap-login-password password)' which could look
like this (100% untested):

(defmacro nnimap-login-password (password)
  (setq password (if password
                     password
                   (read-passwd "Password: "))))

This is something that Lars will have to do, though.  I don't know that
code well enough to say whether it's the right solution; the password
prompt should mention the server, user name, and port.  And it may make
sense to do this prompting for the user name as well.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-23 18:56 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
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 [this message]
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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