From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4452 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kamphausen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: One more authinfo file posting Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:37:05 +0100 Message-ID: <85ll9xyf3i.fsf@mail.bn-software.de> References: <85hdkmi00b.fsf@mail.bn-software.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670363 23284 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:19:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:19:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:47 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-X-Trace: individual.net vv1ZAeOIUXzdq6MqmctmTQx4H+TsQYuG6G0T7eDk6kDP8Ilibl User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:18l+6zBiVN+4wKNG8lhcfC7+TTk= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4593 Original-Lines: 62 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4593 Tue Jan 17 17:33:47 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4452 Archived-At: Hi, Reiner Steib writes: first: thanks for the quick reply :-) > On Wed, Feb 09 2005, Stefan Kamphausen wrote: > >> The problem is -once again- that the authinfo file defined in my >> nnimap settings won't be read. I've tried (probably) all combinations >> of: >> - the name of the IMAP server (IP, FQDN, short name) >> - the port (143, imap, 993, none at all) >> and the matching settings in my .authinfo file ([1]). > > It's hard to guess if you omit the most important part, the content of > the authinfo file (~/.imap-othermailbox). Be sure to erase any > passwords. well, I thought I made it clear, that I don't have /one/ file but a plethora of combinations. Currently I got in my ~/.authinfo: machine news.newsserver.example login kamphausen password xxxxx force yes machine mailserver login "windomain/skamphausen/othermailbox" password "xxxxx" and in my ~/.imap-othermailbox I got one line for each the IP and the FQDN of "mailserver" and one for just "mailserver" that look just like the second line in ~/.authinfo otherwise. > > >> I would really like to see some messages in the *nnimap-debug* buffer, >> telling me for what it was looking in which file and what it found and >> why it chose not to use such a line. > > As a quick check, use the following patch: > [snip] OK, the patch reveiled that the file that is actually read is ~/.authinfo and not the ~/.imap-othermailbox: Parsing authinfo file `~/.authinfo' Nevertheless, I can't see why it doesn't accept the line in there. Maybe I'll spent another hour doing more experiments with it ;-) Please tell me if I'm wrong, but considering the amount of postings dealing with this problem, shouldn't there be some messages as to what lines are examined and why they are rejected in the message-log? The messages could be turned off with a nnimap-i-know-my-authinfo-dealings variable ;-) Thanks and Regards Stefan -- Stefan Kamphausen --- http://www.skamphausen.de a blessed +42 regexp of confusion (weapon in hand) You hit. The format string crumbles and turns to dust.