Re: Gnus v5.8.7 is released

[palmieri@math.washington.edu (John H. Palmieri)]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> George McNinch <McNinch.1@nd.edu> writes:
> 
> > Sorry -- I hope I'm not missing something that is documnted.
> > 
> > Installing 5.8.7 seems to have made nnimap no longer look at my
> > ~/.authinfo file. I didn't change any configuration -- it worked with
> > 5.8.4, and now doesn't; I'm now prompted each time for username and
> > password.
> 
> A port option was added since 5.8.5.  I guess you missed "port imap"
> for the entry of ~/.authinfo file.  For example,
> 
> machine imap.you.com login USER password PASSWD port imap

I've been having problems with v5.8.7, too; my previous version
(updated from cvs on May 10 or so) worked fine.  I've now gotten
things working, but I don't know why what I did should have helped.
Here's what I did: I deleted the "default" line from .authinfo.  I
used to have

  machine math.washington.edu login palmieri password BLAH
  default login anonymous password palmieri@math.washington.edu

With the latest version of gnus, it was passing "anonymous" as the
username and "palmieri@math.washington.edu" as the password, and so
the login was failing.

Now I have

  machine math.washington.edu login palmieri password BLAH

and it seems to work.  Adding "port imap" to the first line didn't
help, either.  (In fact, when I did this with the old cvs version, it
stopped working--it started prompting me for my username and
password.  Adding it to the end of the single line in my current
.authinfo file doesn't seem to have any effect, good or bad.)

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