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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: problems with passwords containing characters with UTF-8 / ASCII codes >= 127
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:05:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4dsodv0.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALyZvKzPHH=AD+LXoMcmu+Bd-cXZ7YaYLc3fA459Gq0ZFRSDNQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:17:02 +0000 Jason Vas Dias <jason.vas.dias@gmail.com> wrote: 

JVD> Today I wasted alot of time after being forced to change my password,
...
JVD> just resulted in the message '(inhibited)' being written to the '*imap
JVD> log*' buffer .

JVD> Is there anyway to get gnus to be more verbose about the SSL encrypted
JVD> command / response traffic it is having with the server and precisely
JVD> why it fails ?

JVD> Maybe I should look at patching it to be more verbose when an IMAP error occurs.

That might be a good idea, but be careful about leaking the password to
a general buffer like *Messages*.  It's OK for a quick run, but you
don't want to do it all the time.

In your case, `auth-source-debug' set to 'trivia or t or a custom
function might have helped.

Ted




      reply	other threads:[~2015-11-20 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-16 16:17 Jason Vas Dias
2015-11-20 16:05 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]

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