From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75973 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [BUG] Prefer AUTH=CRAM-MD5 makes login fail in some IMAP servers. Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:00:08 -0800 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: <87y66863vb.fsf@gnus.org> References: <871v4ktya0.fsf@babel.ls.fi.upm.es> <87hbdfw1km.fsf@babel.ls.fi.upm.es> <8739ozvyn8.fsf@babel.ls.fi.upm.es> <87mxmsrb2l.fsf@gnus.org> <87tygyci2d.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8762teot0w.fsf@gnus.org> <87ei827y19.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8762tendcy.fsf@gnus.org> <87sjwg3ohe.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d3nkad0r.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295992863 12294 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2011 22:01:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:01:03 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24325@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 25 23:00:59 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 1Phqwb-0005k6-Fy for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:00:57 +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 1PhqwV-0007UL-OI; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:00:51 -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 1PhqwU-0007UA-FS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:00:50 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PhqwQ-0000Jo-7E for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:00:50 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PhqwP-000300-FX for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:00:45 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PhqwO-0005eD-Qz for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:00:44 +0100 Original-Received: from baybryj.net ([198.144.208.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:00:44 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by baybryj.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:00:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: baybryj.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AabxXhz/AatBy2mUBD8ZvwNxIBw= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75973 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > But I think I'm going to do what I proposed -- if the connection is > TLS/STARTTLS, then we're going to default to using LOGIN, so CRAM-MD5 is > used for non-encrypted connections only. It'll be slightly faster. I've now done this. Let me know whether this leads to any problems for anybody, but I think it's rather unlikely. (Unless I added a bug somewhere. Emacs forfend.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen