Re: bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:56:21 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
>> Upon logging in, I am prompted to add my login credentials to
>> ~/.authinfo.gpg.  This brings up a confusing buffer asking me to mark
>> a public key, which I have discovered by trial and error only works if
>> I select no public keys so it falls back on symetric encryption.

LMI> Yes, that interface is so confusing it's ridiculous.

I also had trouble with it the first time.  Perhaps there should be more
information on that screen.

LMI> Ted is rewriting the way Emacs asks for and stores user credentials.
LMI> It'll support using the Secrets API in addition to the standard Emacs
LMI> .gpg file handling, but the .gpg interface is so wildly user hostile
LMI> that I'm tempted to go back to just storing this data in the plain-text
LMI> ~/.authinfo file until all this has been worked out.

Yeah, OTOH once it's set up, the .gpg file Just Works.  So for me the
pain has faded away.

On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:49:52 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> This report was handled in a different forum, and debbugs wasn't Cc'd,
LMI> apparently.  So I'm just closing this report.

Hey, where do I go to track it?

Thanks
Ted