From: Ted Stern <stern+gnus@cray.com>
Subject: Re: semi-undocumented "feature" of nnimap-authinfo-file
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:02:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ycck78z7zdb.fsf@orff.wc.cray.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yccsmnpcuc0.fsf@orff.wc.cray.com>
On 25 Aug 2003, Ted Stern wrote:
> I use nnimap via gnus-secondary-select-methods. For one particular server,
> I specify nnimap-stream to be ssl, but otherwise I use the nnimap defaults.
>
> I find that the only way my entries in the ~/.authinfo file containing the
> login and password are seen during imap login is if I enter the machine name
> this way:
>
> machine some.place.net login mylogin password mypassword port imap
> ^^^^^^^^^
> non-obvious!!!!
>
I received help offline from Reiner Steib and also from this page on
my.gnus.org:
http://my.gnus.org/Members/blacky_tn/HowTo,2002-05-28,1022622697760563859/view
(or http://tinyurl.com/ldmo if that gets garbled in the transmission)
Apparently my problem started when I specified nnimap-server-port explicitly.
If the default ssl port is used, then .authinfo is read correctly if no port
token is specified. But adding `port imap' also works.
Ted
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2003-08-25 21:15 Ted Stern
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