From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:19:58 -0800 Message-ID: <878vxd69g1.fsf@gnus.org> References: <874o836dfv.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sjvn3a4u.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aahu8a06.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298017223 21654 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2011 08:20:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:20:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25246@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Feb 18 09:20:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqLZa-0002IX-LX for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:20:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PqLZS-0003SM-7p; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:20:10 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PqLZQ-0003Rx-EA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:20:08 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PqLZM-00050L-9f for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:20:08 -0600 Original-Received: from baybryj.net ([198.144.208.130] helo=lenovo) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PqLZL-0006mm-A6 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:20:03 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by lenovo with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PqLZN-0007TQ-HD; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:20:05 -0800 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:37:35 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76908 gmane.emacs.bugs:44230 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > But the prompts are poor: > - for the user name, the prompt says something like "[USER?]diro:143", > which is very cryptic. While I know why there's a "143" there, > there's no reason to expect users to know that (my .gnus doesn't > mention any port number). Worse: I really have no clue what the "USER?" > is about. Yes, it's quite cryptic. The prompts should simply be "User name for diro:imap: " and "Password for diro:imap: " Or something like that. Well, really, the host name should be the (real) fully qualified host name, if possible, but that may not be feasible. > - then I get prompted to save the password, which is the worst of the > three: Yes, it should just say "Save the password for future sessions? " and not much more. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen