From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71211 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [gnus git] Add ~/.authinfo to the default, since that's probably most useful for users. Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:59:30 +0200 Organization: not if I can help it Message-ID: References: <87iq238tgr.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284994796 28291 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2010 14:59:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:59:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M19584@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 20 16:59:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxhqR-0004tN-QU for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:59:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OxhqN-0001cd-Kl; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:59:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OxhqM-0001cQ-8h for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:59:46 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OxhqL-0006bE-AD for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:59:45 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OxhqK-0004FU-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:59:44 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxhqJ-0004qI-LD for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:59:43 +0200 Original-Received: from lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net ([81.56.191.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:59:43 +0200 Original-Received: from rpluim by lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:59:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) XEmacs/21.5-b29 (cygwin32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:s4+b/EZ0AntslNo1c31JTS2CkOU= X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71211 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > Robert Pluim writes: >> And I *still* get prompted for both my username and password when >> connecting to imap. What magic incantation am I missing? (and no, I'm >> not going to be putting my password in that file). >> > > Hi Robert, > > Some suggestions : > > Change it to a .gpg file. Put it wherever you want and customise the > auth-sources variable accordingly. > > (I would expect to be prompted for userid and password if you dont > include passwords in a file thats supposed to include your authorities) > And I would expect to be prompted for the password if I don't supply it but do supply a username, which is what I'm pretty sure used to happen in the past when using imap (admittedly probably 2 years ago). No accounting for taste ;-) > EPA is pretty seamless in 23 onwards. > > No one should be using .authinfo IMO - .authinfo.gpg is the way forward > since its publicly distributable (think free git repos) and not prey to > accidental to chmods. I suppose I can investigate that, assuming I can get it to work under cygwin. Thanks Robert