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John Prevost <prevost@maya.com> writes:

> Is there any reason mail sources don't seem to use .authinfo, or is
> this just an oversight?

The .netrc format only support one protocol, the original being ftp
and it's nntp in .authinfo. So if the same machine ran nntp/pop/imap
services, there is no obvious way of specifying different passwords.

Perhaps we could further enhance the syntax of netrc files in
.authinfo, perhaps add a keyword `port' to specify which port we're
talking about?  As one couldn't run multiple services on a single
port, that might work.

Are there any other standardized password credential file formats
around?