From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41352 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Can't connect to public imapd cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu. GSSAPI problems Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 23:38:52 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87ell9en64.fsf@bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176761 5666 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:06:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:06:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 19512 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2002 22:41:19 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 1 Jan 2002 22:41:19 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16LXaT-0007LW-00; Tue, 01 Jan 2002 16:40:49 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 01 Jan 2002 16:40:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA18594 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 16:40:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 19490 invoked by alias); 1 Jan 2002 22:40:33 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19485 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2002 22:40:32 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 1 Jan 2002 22:40:32 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain ([195.42.214.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g01MeJSr015424; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 23:40:21 +0100 Original-To: Steinar Bang In-Reply-To: <87ell9en64.fsf@bang.priv.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Tue, 01 Jan 2002 23:12:03 +0100") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41352 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41352 Steinar Bang writes: > I just tried creating an nnimap server for the cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu > machine, which > > lists as holding a the cyrus imapd mailing list archive on a public > access IMAP server. Try this method instead (from the manual): (nnimap "cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu" (nnimap-authenticator anonymous) (nnimap-list-pattern "archive.*") (nnimap-stream network)) > When I pressed SPC on this server to list the available groups, the > following happened: They got a gazillion groups, the list-pattern limits it to interesting groups. > www.google.com seems to indicate that imtest is a command line IMAP > test tool. A search on finds > it as part of the cyrus-imapd debian package, which my client machine > doesn't have installed. Does it need to have it to be able to use > GSSAPI? Whatever that is...? google seems to indicate that it is an > API, and so does the name. But the messages over seems to indicate > that it is some kind of secure connection...? And since you don't have an account at the machine, you need to tell nnimap to login anonymously. GSSAPI means Kerberos 5, in this case.