From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18687 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Imap problems after yrs of use with my config. Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:35:18 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <874lt9j6nd.fsf@local.lan> References: <87bmni9dax.fsf@local.lan> <874lt97m7x.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502804147 20642 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2017 13:35:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:35:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 15 15:35:42 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhc0G-0004Ql-9a for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:35:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33767 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhc0M-0001Dc-SN for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39908) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhc0J-0001D2-Pu for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:35:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhc0H-0000LO-2a for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:35:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37133 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhc0G-0000KN-Ry for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:35:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhc07-0003vg-JI for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:35:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 50 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:/OsiCP7sEc8vRYsdZtHsLagFL/Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "info-gnus-english" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18687 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Harry Putnam writes: [...] >> >> They've told me to use the `App passwd' now. Of course I replied >> letting them know it was not working and waiting now to hear back. >> >> So any suggestions as to what I can do to learn more about why it is >> rejected? > > I doubt this is much to do with Gnus in particular. A quick scan of the > Fastmail documentation simply says that your "real" account password > will only work with Fastmail's own app/web client, so you should > definitely be using the "app password" you created for Gnus. Just to > make everything clean, I'd also delete the authinfo line, and give the > credentials manually when Gnus prompts you. Interestingly, given the fact that fastmail has been very explicit about using my new App passwd and imap.fastmail.com, I've found a workaround for the time been that may quit working down the road. I've discovered, by accident, and using the shotgun approach of trying everything I can think of, that by connecting to a supposedly no- longer working server NOT imap.fastmail.com that my new account password works just fine. Not the App passwd. So for now, all is well. > They also say not to use starttls, but it looks like nnimap will try ssl > first, anyway, so that shouldn't make any difference. If you're > a belt-and-suspenders kind of guy, you could try setting nnimap-stream > to `ssl' in your secondary methods setting. When and if my `by chance' solution quits working, I'll try that with ssl. You're right about it not having anything to do with gnus But great thanks for doing your best even though that is true. The one thing gnus did have to do with this is that when I used the supposed wrong server IP, gnus prompted me for user and passwd, and then asked if it should write that info to ~/.authinfo, I replied `yes' and gnus obligingly wrote the pertinent info to ~/.authinfo. Well done gnus!