From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71708 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: New imap Implementation and Keepalive Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:59:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87fwx1npti.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> <87eicj9tyw.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285419583 1409 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2010 12:59:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:59:43 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20081@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Sep 25 14:59:42 2010 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 1OzULt-00069d-Sm for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:59:42 +0200 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 1OzULb-0004q8-4y; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 07:59:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OzULZ-0004ps-Eq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 07:59:21 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OzULU-0003vX-BJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 07:59:20 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OzULT-00035q-00 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:59:15 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzULR-0005zT-TQ for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:59:13 +0200 Original-Received: from cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com ([92.232.137.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:59:13 +0200 Original-Received: from u.s.reddy by cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:59:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: <87eicj9tyw.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71708 Archived-At: On 9/24/2010 2:00 PM, Charles Philip Chan wrote: > >> If the problem is really that the password cache is expiring, it is >> far better to block that instead of trying to tax the mail server. > > Security? My memory is that auth-source.el caches passwords securely. If your password cache is vulnerable, then your open IMAP session is equally vulnerable. So, I don't see any any particular security advantage to expiring the password cache while keeping the sessions alive. Cheers, Uday