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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nnimap ports and protocols
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:46:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lj6hyky6.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3eica9bbk.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>

On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:34:07 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net> writes:
>> I'd use the customize framework. This gives the added benefit of a ready
>> GUI for manually tweaking the saved info.

LMI> This data wouldn't be variables as such.  It'd be, like "connecting to
LMI> imap server foo is done on port bar using method zot".  Does that work
LMI> in the customize framework?  I'm not sure how I would express that...

LMI> Or to take a different example -- using tls.el to connect to a server.
LMI> Then it would be nice if we'd tried gnutls-cli once, and saw it fail,
LMI> and that openssl worked, that we could save that in some way.

My example on extending nnimap-stream could handle this (posted earlier
this morning in this thread).

Another approach is to add a customizeable alist to control this
preference.

Yet another is to save a "nnimap-stream" token in the netrc file.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-01 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-30 22:55 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01  1:00 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-10-01 13:43   ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 14:52     ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 15:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 15:29   ` Frank Schmitt
2010-10-01 15:34     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 15:46       ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-10-01 16:25         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 16:45           ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 18:29             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 18:41               ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 18:47                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 19:05                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 19:17                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 19:44                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 18:18           ` Sivaram Neelakantan

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