Re: [gnus git] Add ~/.authinfo to the default, since that's probably most useful for users.

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> version of nnimap-credentials (press `C-x C-e' after the closing
> parenthesis)?
>
> (defun nnimap-credentials (address ports)
>   (let (port credentials)
>     ;; Request the credentials from all ports, but only query on the
>     ;; last port if all the previous ones have failed.
>     (while (and (null credentials)
> 		(setq port (pop ports)))
>       (setq credentials
> 	    (or
>              (auth-source-user-or-password
>               '("login" "password") address port nil (null ports))
>              (auth-source-user-or-password
>               '("login") address port nil (null ports)))))
>     credentials))
>
> I don't think the general solution is to return ("myusername" nil) in
> such cases.  It seems to me that if the application asks for two
> authentication tokens, it expects them both to be valid.

That version of nnimap-credentials causes me to not get prompted for
anything, and the connection to my imap server to fail. The *nnimap
buffer contains:

    1 NO LOGIN failed.
    
    Process *nnimap* kill

so I either more code changes are required, or I should use
authinfo.gpg (assuming the combination-from-hell of XEmacs & cygwin
supports it).

Thanks

Robert