From: Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Admin IMAP groups from different account
Date: 04 Jan 2000 18:26:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluzoulhhoj.fsf@badis.pdc.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Steve Harris's message of "04 Jan 2000 08:45:57 -0800"
Steve Harris <sharris@primus.com> writes:
> > Added an entry in ~/.authinfo for the new server, specifying the
> > admin account and password. So far, so good.
>
> Does nnimap still read ~/.authinfo for passwords?
Yes.
> It used to work for me until I upgraded to Gnus v5.8.2, using
> 'mail-sources' to set up my IMAP source. At first, I tried to leave
> off the ':password' argument since it's specified in ~/.authinfo. Gnus
> could not log in to the IMAP server. Finally I gave up, put the
> ':password' argument in, and separated the mail-sources stuff into a
> separate file so I could lock down the permissions on it. I never
> found a change in the documentation to suggest that this wouldn't work
> any longer.
The IMAP mail-source (!= nnimap) has never supported .authinfo.
Supporting the mail-source credential cache is on the todo-list, but
it doesn't fetch passwords from .authinfo AFAIK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-01-04 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-04 13:02 Kai Großjohann
2000-01-04 14:25 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-01-04 17:19 ` Amos Gouaux
2000-01-04 17:55 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-01-04 16:45 ` Steve Harris
2000-01-04 17:08 ` David S. Goldberg
2000-01-04 17:26 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2000-01-04 18:14 ` Steve Harris
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