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From: Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>
To: "John Wiegley" <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gmail and pop3
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:29:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sj4er967.fsf@sycorax.lbl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2y5e6272p.fsf@newartisans.com> (jwiegley@gmail.com)

"John Wiegley" <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov> writes:
>
>> furthermore, if i rename my .netrc file to something else then i can
>> access my gmail account. so it looks like this patch rather than
>> allow "password" as netrc passwords made it as require password if
>> .netrc exists.
>
> Sorry about, Alex. I did find the parsing code in this area of Gnus
> rather difficult to reason about. Maybe someone with more familiarity
> would be willing to look over my commit?

no problem. hopefully somebody will find the solution so i can log on
gmail and keep my .netrc file. or, i guess, i can just try to add my
gmail username/password to the .netrc file (which i haven't tried yet).

--alex--

-- 
| I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active |
|  advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with  |
|  automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion  |
|  and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-01 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-01 18:57 Alex Romosan
2013-03-01 20:33 ` John Wiegley
2013-03-01 23:29   ` Alex Romosan [this message]
2013-06-06 15:43   ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-06 18:06     ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-10  6:26       ` netrc parser revamp (was: gmail and pop3) Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-15  8:04         ` netrc parser revamp Ted Zlatanov

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