From: George McNinch <McNinch.1@nd.edu>
Subject: Re: nnimap problem, maybe
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:27:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2puwayky9.fsf@yardbird.math.nd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Simon Josefsson's message of "12 Dec 1999 22:57:58 +0100"
>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:
Simon> George McNinch <McNinch.1@nd.edu> writes:
Kai> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap ""
Kai> (nnimap-address "imap-g.nd.edu")))
>> Sadly, this didn't work.
Simon> What happened?
Simon> Nnimap is a Gnus backend so the proper thing is to add a
Simon> virtual server to `gnus-secondary-select-methods' (or
Simon> perhaps `gnus-select-method') if you want to use it, like
Simon> Kai described, I don't think simply setting
Simon> `nnimap-address' to something would give the desired
Simon> effect.
This is a repeat of what Kai said. Setting
gnus-secondary-select-methods as he specified didn't work, as I
indicated. (server buffer said "denied". Ditto for the *Message-Log*
buffer)
The point turns out to be that I must set
(setq nnimap-authenticator 'login)
since I don't have imtest installed, and without that setting, nnimap
tries to use Kerberos (I guess because the server is able to use
this), and fails.
So it now works.
The Info docs include the following description:
nnimap-authenticator'
The authenticator used to connect to the server. By default,
nnimap will use the most secure authenticator your server is
capable of.
* "kerberos4:" Kerberos authentication.
* "cram-md5:" Encrypted username/password via CRAM-MD5.
* "login:" Plain-text username/password via LOGIN.
* "anonymous:" Login as `anonymous', supplying your emailadress
as password.
These values should probably be changed to
* kerberos4
* login
etc. (i.e. no quotes and :s)
Ditto for for the Info docs on nnimap-stream.
Of course (describe-variable) does give the correct information. It just
didn't occur to me that this was the trouble at first.
Thanks for the help.
Best,
George
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-12-13 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-11 20:32 George McNinch
1999-12-11 21:46 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-12-12 21:49 ` George McNinch
1999-12-12 21:57 ` Simon Josefsson
1999-12-13 14:27 ` George McNinch [this message]
1999-12-12 21:50 ` George McNinch
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