From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72401 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap ports and protocols Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:46:57 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87lj6hyky6.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87mxqyj5iz.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285948048 11800 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 15:47:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:47:28 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20773@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 01 17:47:27 2010 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 1P1hpV-0005wm-Md for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:47:26 +0200 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 1P1hpM-0005Mt-IN; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:47:16 -0500 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 1P1hpK-0005MU-Jt for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:47:14 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P1hpG-000078-KE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:47:14 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P1hpF-0004dn-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:47:09 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1hpC-0005pG-3h for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:47:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:47:06 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:47:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 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:PsY1Y5htR2SCh7pp22mJN6NGLk4= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72401 Archived-At: On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:34:07 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Frank Schmitt 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