Re: bug#7599: 24.0.50; gnus nnimap doesn't remember choice for auth-source-create

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:10:25 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> francois@garillot.net (François Garillot) writes:
>> If the user answers no, this choice is not remembered. The preference is
>> not configurable. A user that wants to manually enter login information
>> at nnimap startup therefore has to refuse credentials storage every
>> time.

LMI> Yes, it would be better if Emacs remembered the user's choice.  Ted
LMI> plans to rewrite the auth-source.el interface, and if I remember
LMI> correctly, that was one of the things auth-source.el was going to
LMI> handle.  Although it's still unclear where this should be stored or in
LMI> what format.  Ideally, it'd allow for, say, storing the user name, but
LMI> not the password for IMAP, but allow storing both for NNTP, for
LMI> instance.  

I think this is handled correctly in the auth-source.el rewrite I will
push out this weekend.  Please let me know if the code needs fixin' or
if I can close this bug after you test it.

Thanks
Ted