From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33907 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap - authentication Date: 27 Dec 2000 10:15:31 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169927 27613 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:12:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:12:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E13ABD049E for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2000 04:16:15 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAB24449; Wed, 27 Dec 2000 03:16:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 27 Dec 2000 03:15:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA17423 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2000 03:15:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3361DD049E for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2000 04:15:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id KAA07388; Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:15:32 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id KAA21761; Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:15:31 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id KAA30697; Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:15:31 +0100 Original-To: Harry Putnam X-Face: /B3twq_DELA4]7alR?%xv(/f1N;bi:NN=UlA=(1a"pKte&5/Y/9*z&8q[P}+}YgJX_9*}k_ 0E|EJBC~yEok<#VOw:9GQWq1-;PCR-hd;3|Vk]~"|EM{Q5ir5nr!HzZ,W4\k5G|QWHw45gQ*tWydTR , Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/21.0.95 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33907 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33907 On 26 Dec 2000, Harry Putnam wrote: > Does it mean I need something like this? > > (nnimap "mail.server.com" > (nnimap-authenticator anonymous)) > > Putting the `login' part in place of anonymous? Yes. (nnimap-authenticator foo) uses the symbol foo, whereas (nnimap-authenticator "foo") would use a string (because of the double quotes). > * "login:" Plain-text username/password via LOGIN. I think it is unfortunate that the manual contains double quotes and a colon where the Lisp code should not contain either. The double quotes are not easy to recognize as markup. Maybe it would be better if it looked like this: * `login': Plain-text ... Hm. > But then what about the `username' `password' part? Where does it > go.? In ~/.authinfo, if you like. Hm. The default username might be your login name. I think you have to put a line in ~/.authinfo if you want to use a different username. But you don't have to put the password in ~/.authinfo, Gnus will ask you for it. machine frumple login harry password verysecret This machine name would be for a server (nnimap "frumple" ...). kai -- ~/.signature