From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:32:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8vzzdi9a.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ipziupey.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:56:21 +0100")
>> It seems gnus-agent (which I never explicitly enabled, but have had
>> problems with in past upgrades after it was enabled by default) is out
>> of sync with the server, and deleting the ~/News/agent directory fixed
>> the problem.
> Gnus has stopped enabling the Agent by default now, but older
> installations can still get in the way. I've Cc'd this to the Gnus
> mailing list -- do any of you know why the Agent got so wildly out of
> what with nnimap in the past?
I need the Agent with nnimap. And I think Gnus should enable the Agent
everywhere by default nowadays. Most/all other MUAs do.
> that I'm tempted to go back to just storing this data in the plain-text
> ~/.authinfo file until all this has been worked out.
No!!!! Or only after prompting the user five times for
(different) confirmation.
> When writing the ~/.authinfo.gpg file, the user should be queried one
> thing: "Password for ~/.authinfo.gpg: ****". And that's it, in my
> extremely humble opinion.
I partly agree, though some users won't have a key-pair setup, others
will have several, so the right thing to do may be either to use
symmetric encryption, or to guess which key-pair to use, and since it's
a guess there needs to be a way for the user to override the guess.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-08 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.0.1290791691.11667.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-11-28 2:56 ` bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <m3ipziupey.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
2010-12-06 16:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-07 23:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-08 17:00 ` Jason Rumney
2010-12-09 21:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-10 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <ids61l$jr6$2@quimby.gnus.org>
2010-12-10 16:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-08 17:05 ` Jason Rumney
2010-12-08 23:32 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-12-09 21:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <mailman.1.1291931529.5417.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-10 18:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-10 20:56 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.38.1292016144.4804.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-13 3:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 17:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-13 20:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-14 1:08 ` Daiki Ueno
2010-12-15 2:06 ` Daiki Ueno
[not found] ` <mailman.3.1292379760.6505.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-15 14:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 22:05 ` Daiki Ueno
2010-12-15 23:42 ` Daiki Ueno
2010-12-16 2:45 ` Daiki Ueno
[not found] ` <mailman.13.1292467961.28766.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-16 16:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 19:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 19:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-16 19:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-26 17:10 Jason Rumney
2010-12-05 16:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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