Re: Releasing the new nnimap on y'all soon

[Knut Anders Hatlen <kahatlen@gmail.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> Should it be mostly a drop-in replacement?  For example, there are two
>> IMAP servers I currently access, one using a shell connection and the
>> other using a network connection:
>>
>>       (setq imap-shell-program '("ssh %s dovecot --exec-mail imap"))
>
> This one is not supported.
>
>>       (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
>> 		   '(nnimap "jdc"
>> 			    (nnimap-address "remote.imap.server")
>> 			    ;(nnimap-server-port XXXXX)
>> 			    ;(nnimap-authenticator login)
>> 			    (nnimap-stream shell)
>
> Ah, I've forgotten to implement the shell thing for nnimap-stream, so
> that won't work.  I'll get to it.

I saw that you added it back. Thanks! A couple of issues:

1) The old nnimap used (nnimap-stream shell) whereas the new nnimap uses
(nnimap-stream stream). Change it back to shell for backwards
compatibility?

2) My imap-shell-program is set to dovecot --exec-mail imap, similar to
what Dan posted above, only that I run it against local mailboxes and
don't need ssh. When I start Gnus, I'm prompted for user name and
password, but the session is pre-authenticated, so that shouldn't be
needed. After typing user name and password, it just hangs, presumably
because the IMAP session starts with PREAUTH and not with the usual OK:

$ /usr/sbin/dovecot -c /home/kah/dovecot.conf --exec-mail imap
* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS] Logged in as kah

If the session starts with a PREAUTH response, no LOGIN command should
be sent, I think.

-- 
Knut Anders