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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.