Re: authinfo encryption through netrc.el works now

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

"Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

>> So start up Gnus again -- and have to type my password again.
>
> I don't know why the password cache is getting cleared.  We have
>
> (defvar password-data (make-vector 7 0))
>
> in password.el; I thought this would not get cleared on a subsequent
> load of the password.el package.  Maybe Simon will comment.

Perhaps the password simply expired.  IIRC, Steven said he used an
expire timer for 10 minutes, so by the time Gnus is restarted, perhaps
more than 10 minutes has expired.

The default password cache life length is 16 seconds, which IMHO
doesn't make much sense but it has been discussed before.  Try:

 (setq password-cache-expiry 47114711)
 (setq pgg-passphrase-cache-expiry 47114711)

Perhaps the password cache could include logic differentiate among
passwords, so that users may choice that IMAP/SMTP passwords are kept
around in memory forever, but OpenPGP passwords are remembered for 5
minutes, or something.  I've thought about adding a "Use cached
password? (y or n)" query as well, which is another thing that I'd
want for OpenPGP passwords but not for IMAP/SMTP passwords.