Re: nnimap: saver user but not password

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:33:56 +0100 Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote: 

UB> In the old nognus 0.11 I could save my settings including my
UB> userid, but not the password in the 
UB> .imap-authinfo file, 

UB> like this 

UB> machine imap.gmail.com login user1@gmail.com password  port 993
UB> machine UCM login user2 password  force yes

UB> Now in the newest gnus version (via git) the information is
UB> saved in 
UB> .authinfo.gpg [1]
UB> however it is not possible to save the information without
UB> the password, all the time gnus asks for *user* and
UB> *password*
UB> and asks to save the information, but again only *user*
UB> _and_ *password*. It seems impossible to save *user* alone.

You can do it, just not automatically at the prompt.  So let it save,
then edit the file and remove what you don't want.

UB> Footnotes:
UB> [1]  (BTW I don't understand why this file has the gpg ending, per
UB> default it is an ASCII file.)

See the EPA manual (info "epa") and the auth-source manual (info "auth")
for more information.  Basically the .gpg extension will tell EPA to
encrypt the file.  But you can always switch to a file name without the
.gpg extension and suffer no encryption.

Ted