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Peter Weiss <Peter.Weiss@class.de> writes:

>      o Imap: Each time I (g)et new messages I'm asked for the password,
>        though I allways say yes to "Store password for this session?"
> 
>        I'm now reading IMAP using mail-sources and storing them in the nnml
>        backend. The :password entry is not set in mail-sources.

The imap mail-source create a new session each time it fetches new
mail, so it doesn't reuse the password. The mail-source package has
it's own password-handling stuff (wow, the third or fourth, just in
Gnus? :-)) which should be used. It's on the todo-list.