Re: Making Gnus ask my IMAP username and password after the recent auth-source changes

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> The second part is correct: 143 is the first element of the search that
> nnimap.el constructs.  We should put "imap" first if that's what we want
> (but Lars should decide the order).  I will change auth-source to ask
> when there are multiple candidates.

Well, there really are two distinct cases when it comes to querying and
creation.

When we're querying, we want to query for all the known port numbers.
But when we create, we know what port number we want to create, and the
user shouldn't be queried at all.

In the nnimap case, we want to query 143 993 imaps imap, because all
those may be present in the ~/.authinfo file.  But when we create, we
want it to be imap, because that makes more sense.

The old netrc stuff just used the convention of "use the last port
number in the query list when creating", but it might be cleaner to have
this be an explicit parameter.  In any case, the user shouldn't be
prompted when creating the credentials.

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