From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77059 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap authentication prompts? Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:39:10 +0100 Message-ID: <87oc65ysn5.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> References: <87tyfxfedo.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> <85d3mlxmeg.fsf@gmail.com> <87vd0d15gb.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298324397 14125 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2011 21:39:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:39:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25392@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Feb 21 22:39:52 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 1PrdTz-0000pO-Uj for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:39:52 +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 1PrdTY-0005Fr-VV; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:39:25 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PrdTV-0005FP-HS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:39:21 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PrdTT-0000jJ-Mj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:39:21 -0600 Original-Received: from yxa-v.extundo.com ([213.115.69.139]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PrdTS-0003Y3-N8 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:39:18 +0100 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (c80-216-4-108.bredband.comhem.se [80.216.4.108]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa-v.extundo.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p1LLdBqo029695 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:39:15 +0100 OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 1:22:110221:ding@gnus.org::u1o9w5/oxjtK2WZw:535c X-Hashcash: 1:22:110221:tzz@lifelogs.com::wxQc+2blfagRUyZI:2L/8 In-Reply-To: <87vd0d15gb.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:46:28 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110012 (No Gnus v0.12) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DATE_IN_FUTURE_06_12,RDNS_DYNAMIC,SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on yxa-v.extundo.com X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.5 at yxa-v X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77059 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:09:19 +0530 Sivaram Neelakantan > 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