* IMAP diagnostics questions
@ 2004-07-25 9:38 Jesse F. Hughes
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From: Jesse F. Hughes @ 2004-07-25 9:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hey ho.
In the Group buffer, when I hit "g", nnimap opens each group like so:
(From the lossage buffer, so upside down)
Opening nnimap server on PW+nnimap+PW:INBOX.kun...done
imap: Plaintext authentication...
Waiting for response from phiwumbda.org...done
imap: Opening SSL connection with `openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect %s:%p'...done
imap: Opening SSL connection with `openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect %s:%p'...
imap: Connecting to phiwumbda.org...
Opening nnimap server on PW+nnimap+PW:INBOX.kun...
Well, my first question: Is that plaintext authentication *really*
plaintext or not? If I'm doing this over the internet, can my
password be sniffed?
Second, is it necessary to establish the connection *every* time I get
new mail? I like to use gnus splitting with ifile, so it's not
sufficient just to check INBOX (though I have set some levels so that
some groups are only occasionally checked). If I use a daemon to do
this when idle, then it will thwart tkbiff, which reads only INBOX. I
don't want to run BIGNUM copies of tkbiff.
Is there a way to keep existing connections alive for a period of
time?
Also, in my server buffer, in addition to
{nnimap:PW} (opened)
I also see a slew of lines like
{nnimap:PW+nnimap+PW:INBOX.lists.categories} (opened)
{nnimap:PW+nnimap+PW:INBOX.tue} (opened)
{nnimap:PW+nnimap+PW:INBOX.tue.research} (opened)
{nnimap:PW+nnimap+PW:INBOX.trash.manual} (opened)
Is that normal? If I enter one of those "servers", I see a list of
all the existing IMAP groups marked "K".
Thanks for any help you can offer this small-brained person.
Remember, talk slow and use non-technical words. Dammit, Jim, I'm a
philosopher, not a programmer.
--
Jesse Hughes
"She testified they had sex near the Oval Office, not in the famous
room itself, because that `wouldn't be appropriate, you know.'"
-AP article
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* Re: IMAP diagnostics questions
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@ 2004-07-26 19:32 ` Jesse F. Hughes
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From: Jesse F. Hughes @ 2004-07-26 19:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> I think your messages looks quite confusing, though. Perhaps C-k them
> and resubscribe them, to get the server definition of the groups
> correct, will help.
Now *that* seems to help. Boy, it's a lot faster now. Thanks much.
I don't think I did anything too odd in creating them. I created each
group by moving mail from an nnml group to an imap group, and I was
thereby automatically subscribed to the imap group. Is there a bug
perhaps, or did I make an error?
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What you want with a hen? -- Charlie Patton,
Won't cackle when she lays "Banty Rooster Blues"
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