From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53848 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Stern Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: semi-undocumented "feature" of nnimap-authinfo-file Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:02:24 -0700 Organization: Cray Inc. Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062007368 13828 80.91.224.253 (27 Aug 2003 18:02:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:02:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2388@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Aug 27 20:02:46 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19s4d4-0008Ri-00 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 20:02:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19s4cs-00008w-00; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:02:34 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19s4cl-00008q-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:02:27 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 88220 invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2003 18:02:27 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 88215 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2003 18:02:26 -0000 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (80.91.224.249) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 27 Aug 2003 18:02:26 -0000 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19s4dU-0004Vv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 20:03:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19s4dT-0004Vn-00 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 20:03:11 +0200 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19s4cj-0003Zn-00 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 20:02:25 +0200 Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:N+vpQlKVw+7qa7yIca//AuWjlQ4= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53848 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53848 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 -- Ted Stern Applications Group Cray Inc. office: 206-701-2182 411 First Avenue South, Suite 600 cell: 206-383-1049 Seattle, WA 98104-2860 FAX: 206-701-2500 Frango ut patefaciam -- I break that I may reveal (The Paleontological Society motto, equally apropos for debugging)