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John Prevost <prevost@maya.com> writes:

> Hmm.  Well, nnimap already uses the authinfo file just fine.

Yes, but that's not a very nice thing of nnimap. .authinfo is nntp.

> The thing that confuses me is that the mail-source code for imap
> doesn't even try to use the password in this file.

Lars?

> I think we should probably extend .authinfo.  Maybe not port, but
> protocol (which could allow for "imap" working for either normal or
> SSL imap, or imap on a weird port, or ...  Or something like that.
> That might not be quite right either.  Hmm.

I don't think so, no, then you couldn't have multiple IMAP services on
one single IP (which I know some people have, hence the extra cludge
for supporting that in nnimap). What's wrong with 'port'?

If mail-sources had a name, the cludge nnimap uses (put the virtual
server name as the `machine' field in .authinfo) would work, but they
don't so `port' or something similar is probably necessery. Or
preferably, using another standardized file format altogheter.