From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82964 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Romosan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: gmail and pop3 Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:57:12 -0800 Message-ID: <87wqtrq77b.fsf@sycorax.lbl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362164254 28089 80.91.229.3 (1 Mar 2013 18:57:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 18:57:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31230=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 01 19:57:55 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 1UBV9T-0002Go-1m for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:57:51 +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 1UBV97-00008X-0n for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:57:29 -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 1UBV94-00008P-Fk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:57:26 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UBV93-0006oy-2t for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:57:26 -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 1UBV90-0005xB-Tv for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:57:23 +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 r21IvJfU004555; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:57:19 -0800 Original-Received: (from romosan@localhost) by sycorax.lbl.gov (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id r21IvI34004552; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:57:18 -0800 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:82964 Archived-At: after not being able to log on my gmail account using gnus and pop3 for the last couple of months i finally decided to do a git bisect to find the commit that broke it and came up with this: 152b8331ec8e0d49c005b2b19bfacc77df882c46 is the first bad commit commit 152b8331ec8e0d49c005b2b19bfacc77df882c46 Author: John Wiegley Date: Tue Dec 25 18:31:47 2012 +0100 Allow "password" as netrc passwords * auth-source.el (auth-source-netrc-parse): Allow using "password" as the password (bug#12097). :040000 040000 2cf066be80165460b8e824414098c87f22000089 548900db7ba3abbefe3c201fd304892dcf398c2c M lisp 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. --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. |