From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nnimap authentication prompts?
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:39:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oc65ysn5.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vd0d15gb.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:46:28 -0600")
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:09:19 +0530 Sivaram Neelakantan
> <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> SN> On Mon, Feb 21 2011,Simon Josefsson wrote:
>>> however when I start Gnus it asks me a series of questions that confuses
>>> me. The first one is hostname, and I can chose between yxa and
>>> localhost, what does this mean? The username and password prompts are
>>> understandable (although shouldn't it read this from my .authinfo
>>> file?). The final prompt is for port and I cannot specify 1430, only
>>> '143' and 'imap' are valid choices. I just pressed enter and it worked
>>> anyway.
>
> SN> Apparently a fix is to be incorporated to rectify this confusing
> SN> initial setup. I believe you'd be asked only once for this and the
> SN> collected data is supposed to go into .authinfo.gpg file from where it
> SN> will be read the next time.
>
> Yeah, and to reply to all the other issues with auth-source: yes, I know
> it's annoying; I will get the prompts and the decoding issues fixed ASAP.
> Unfortunately this weekend I didn't get a chance to work on it as I hoped.
I have saved the authinfo once, and it now works every time. My
~/.authinfo.gpg contains (decrypted):
machine "localhost" login "jas" password "foo"
which seems bad since it should have said port 1430 as well, though?
Fortunately I don't have multiple servers on localhost right now, but I
could have.
I'll try if adding a 'port 1430' will still works.
/Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-21 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-21 18:09 Simon Josefsson
2011-02-21 18:39 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2011-02-21 20:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-21 21:39 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2011-02-21 21:43 ` Simon Josefsson
2011-02-22 22:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 13:39 ` Simon Josefsson
2011-02-23 14:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 23:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-21 23:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-22 8:50 ` Simon Josefsson
2011-02-22 22:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 13:41 ` Simon Josefsson
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