From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76837 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:26:07 -0800 Message-ID: <87lj1fr7rk.fsf@gnus.org> References: <874o836dfv.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297891586 2402 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2011 21:26:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:26:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ding Mailing List , 8050@debbugs.gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25176@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Feb 16 22:26:21 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 1Ppot9-000843-Aj for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:26:19 +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 1Ppot7-0001Ok-56; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:26:17 -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 1Ppot5-0001OT-K3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:26:15 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ppot1-0006jx-73 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:26:15 -0600 Original-Received: from baybryj.net ([198.144.208.130] helo=lenovo) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ppot0-0001F4-1z for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:26:10 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by lenovo with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ppot0-0006oK-TX; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:26:10 -0800 In-Reply-To: <874o836dfv.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:29:08 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76837 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > I think this is fixed in the Gnus trunk as far as the auth-source > credentials go (Lars will have to fix the nnimap code failure on empty > credentials). What's a good test case to tickle the bug? > I have two usability questions (cross-posting to the Gnus mailing list): > > 1) should we have a global override to say "never add netrc entries", or > should the prompt be Y/N/y/n instead of just y-or-n-p, or should the > save question be asked only once per file, or something else? Hm... if you look at how Firefox deals with this, it asks something like "save password, don't save now, never save for this host", and I think that's pretty nice, UX wise. But there isn't a "never ask me about saving passwords for any hosts ever again", I think? > 2) should auth-source let-bind the password-cache timeout to something > larger? The default is pretty short and for auth-source I think at > least 30 minutes are reasonable. It could be a customizable integer. I'd prefer a longer timeout than 30 minutes as the default. Perhaps two hours? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen