mail-source and incorrect passwords

mail-source and incorrect passwords

[Jack Vinson]

I have two mail sources.  If I happen to type the correct password to the
first and the incorrect password to the second, Gnus pops up a message
saying something to the effect of "incorrect password, continue? (yes/no)."
When I say "yes," Gnus continues but does not read mail that was collected
from the first mail source (mail-source-crash-box?).  

It also caches that incorrect password, so that I have to clear the
mail-source-password-cache (at least for that one source) before it will
ever read correctly.  In the past, I thought Gnus would simply not set the
password if it was incorrect.

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Jack Vinson
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Re: mail-source and incorrect passwords

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jack Vinson <vinson@unagi.cis.upenn.edu> writes:

> I have two mail sources.  If I happen to type the correct password to the
> first and the incorrect password to the second, Gnus pops up a message
> saying something to the effect of "incorrect password, continue? (yes/no)."
> When I say "yes," Gnus continues but does not read mail that was collected
> from the first mail source (mail-source-crash-box?).  

Could you `(setq debug-on-quit t)` and `C-g' when it prompts you?
Mail me the backtrace.

> It also caches that incorrect password, so that I have to clear the
> mail-source-password-cache (at least for that one source) before it will
> ever read correctly.  In the past, I thought Gnus would simply not set the
> password if it was incorrect.

Yup.  Fix in Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: mail-source and incorrect passwords

[Jack Vinson]

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

LMI> Jack Vinson <vinson@unagi.cis.upenn.edu> writes:
>> I have two mail sources.  If I happen to type the correct password to the
>> first and the incorrect password to the second, Gnus pops up a message
>> saying something to the effect of "incorrect password, continue? (yes/no)."
>> When I say "yes," Gnus continues but does not read mail that was collected
>> from the first mail source (mail-source-crash-box?).  

LMI> Could you `(setq debug-on-quit t)` and `C-g' when it prompts you?
LMI> Mail me the backtrace.

I just checked and Gnus seems to be doing the right thing now.  0.97 also
corrects the small problem that Gnus cached the incorrect password.  Good
work, Lars.

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Jack Vinson
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