From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77058 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap authentication prompts? Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:46:28 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87vd0d15gb.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87tyfxfedo.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> <85d3mlxmeg.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298321248 29163 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2011 20:47:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:47:28 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25391@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Feb 21 21:47:24 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 1PrcfB-00085c-6w for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:47:21 +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 1Prcek-000519-Ew; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:46:54 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Prcei-00050j-5i for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:46:52 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Prceh-00039t-1I for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:46:51 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Prcee-0002d7-Oi for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:46:48 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Prcee-0007nu-Ie for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:46:48 +0100 Original-Received: from c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([67.186.102.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:46:48 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:46:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110012 (No Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EwrAr8LvhOTzq+vGhoA5nz9ij2c= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77058 Archived-At: 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. Thanks Ted