nnimap: saver user but not password

nnimap: saver user but not password

[Uwe Brauer]

Hello 

In the old nognus 0.11 I could save my settings including my
userid, but not the password in the 
.imap-authinfo file, 

like this 

machine imap.gmail.com login user1@gmail.com password  port 993
machine UCM login user2 password  force yes


Now in the newest gnus version (via git) the information is
saved in 
.authinfo.gpg [1]
however it is not possible to save the information without
the password, all the time gnus asks for *user* and
*password*
and asks to save the information, but again only *user*
_and_ *password*. It seems impossible to save *user* alone.



Uwe Brauer 

Footnotes:
[1]  (BTW I don't understand why this file has the gpg ending, per
default it is an ASCII file.)

Re: nnimap: saver user but not password

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> machine imap.gmail.com login user1@gmail.com password  port 993
> machine UCM login user2 password  force yes
>
> Now in the newest gnus version (via git) the information is
> saved in 
> .authinfo.gpg [1]
> however it is not possible to save the information without
> the password, all the time gnus asks for *user* and
> *password*
> and asks to save the information, but again only *user*
> _and_ *password*. It seems impossible to save *user* alone.

Just save it in the .authinfo file.  I think that should work?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: nnimap: saver user but not password

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:33:56 +0100 Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote: 

UB> In the old nognus 0.11 I could save my settings including my
UB> userid, but not the password in the 
UB> .imap-authinfo file, 

UB> like this 

UB> machine imap.gmail.com login user1@gmail.com password  port 993
UB> machine UCM login user2 password  force yes

UB> Now in the newest gnus version (via git) the information is
UB> saved in 
UB> .authinfo.gpg [1]
UB> however it is not possible to save the information without
UB> the password, all the time gnus asks for *user* and
UB> *password*
UB> and asks to save the information, but again only *user*
UB> _and_ *password*. It seems impossible to save *user* alone.

You can do it, just not automatically at the prompt.  So let it save,
then edit the file and remove what you don't want.

UB> Footnotes:
UB> [1]  (BTW I don't understand why this file has the gpg ending, per
UB> default it is an ASCII file.)

See the EPA manual (info "epa") and the auth-source manual (info "auth")
for more information.  Basically the .gpg extension will tell EPA to
encrypt the file.  But you can always switch to a file name without the
.gpg extension and suffer no encryption.

Ted