From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82967 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Romosan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gmail and pop3 Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:29:20 -0800 Message-ID: <87sj4er967.fsf@sycorax.lbl.gov> References: <87wqtrq77b.fsf@sycorax.lbl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362180575 25966 80.91.229.3 (1 Mar 2013 23:29:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 23:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: "John Wiegley" Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31233@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Mar 02 00:29:59 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UBZOo-0007oR-LR for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:29:58 +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 1UBZOK-0001La-Hq; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:29:28 -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 1UBZOI-0001LC-8T for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:29:26 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UBZOH-0004BS-6W for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:29:26 -0600 Original-Received: from sycorax.lbl.gov ([128.3.11.121] ident=root) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UBZOF-0003Ih-C0 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:29:23 +0100 Original-Received: from sycorax.lbl.gov (romosan@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sycorax.lbl.gov (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-4) with ESMTP id r21NTKei005743; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 15:29:20 -0800 Original-Received: (from romosan@localhost) by sycorax.lbl.gov (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id r21NTKH2005740; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 15:29:20 -0800 In-Reply-To: (jwiegley@gmail.com) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82967 Archived-At: "John Wiegley" writes: >>>>>> Alex Romosan 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. |