Re: auth-sources: 8 password prompts for accessing one single imap server

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> As you can see, 1) it queries for a password for each possible imap port
> or port name.  And 2), for each of those, I have to type my password 2
> times.

Ah, I get it.  I mean, it loops over the different port combinations,
and it gets both user name and password.  And the reason you get
prompted so many times is that it all ends up being queried from
netrc.el, which is very simple: You ask it for a user name and a
password, based on a machine/port specification.

So to avoid all these queries, we'd have to bypass auth-sources
altogether, or have netrc.el cache the data.

Or alter auth-sources so that it takes a list of ports to scan, and
calls netrc-credentials with that list.

I think the latter makes more sense.

Will it break any other packages if I alter the function signatures in
auth-sources.el to take a list of ports?

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