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

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:00:09 -0300 Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito@gmail.com> wrote: 

RKdC> Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:52:39 -0800 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> wrote:
LI> It needs to ask for the user name, too, doesn't it?
>> 
>> Maybe.  Right now it's guessed.  People seem to prefer fewer prompts and
>> you can always `e'dit the line afterwards.  I mentioned that in my reply
>> to Simon Josefsson just now, too.

RKdC> I'm bitten by this, by the way -- since I don't want to store my password in 
RKdC> ~/.{authinfo,authinfo.gpg,netrc}, even if encrypted, auth-source tries to 
RKdC> guess my IMAP username.

RKdC> Would it make sense if I could just store the "host", "port" and "user" 
RKdC> parameters in ~/.{authinfo,authinfo.gpg,netrc} and then Gnus would prompt 
RKdC> me/try to guess the missing parameters?

It should work.  For instance this line:

machine testserver login tzz

in the authinfo file matches this:

(auth-source-search :host "testserver")

and returns this:

((:host "testserver" :user "tzz"))

In other words, the password is not required for a successful match.  If
it doesn't work for you, set `auth-source-debug' to 'trivia and send me
the relevant lines from *Messages*.

Thanks
Ted