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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: 8050@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:13:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvaah9qqwp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: nobody's message of "\(unknown date\)"

The saga continues:

Now I'm not asked for a host name and a port any more (just realized in
the mean time that those questions were not only unexpected but even
subtler than I thought since they're not about how/where to connect (the
connection is already established at that point) but about which
password to use).  Good.

- But when I'm asked for a user name there is no default, whereas earlier
  my local user name was used as default (which happens to work for me on
  most of the machines to which I can connect).  Please use the local user
  name as default in that prompt.

- Also when I'm then asked for a password, the prompt says "Password for
  user foo, host bar" which is more verbose but not more clear than
  "Password for foo@bar" used in earlier Gnus.

- I'm asked whether to save the password regardless of whether the
  password and user names are correct or not.  That's really bad.

- When I was asked whether to save my password, the cursor was not shown in
  the prompt, which looked weird.  Maybe it was a temporary redisplay
  problem (I hit `n' mechanically pretty quickly, so maybe Emacs didn't
  have time to display the cursor).
  
- If the connection fails (e.g. bad password or bad user name), I don't
  get asked again, instead Gnus continues in offline mode.

- After refusing to save the password in authinfo.gpg, I get a message
  along the lines of "auth-source-search: CREATED 1 results ...".
  I don't care whether "results" is replaced by "result" when there's
  only 1, but this looks like a debug message which should disappear.
  Usually, I'd assume it is just a forgotten debug message, but given
  the atrocious prompts I've seen in this thread, I'm a bit
  more cautious.


-- Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-05 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-16  1:54 bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more Stefan Monnier
2011-02-24  1:03 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] ` <mailman.0.1298509609.2066.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-24 12:50   ` Ted Zlatanov
     [not found]   ` <87y655bnr4.fsf@lifelogs.com>
2011-02-24 15:22     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-24 16:29       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-25  4:29     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
     [not found]     ` <87wrkobutr.fsf@gnus.org>
2011-02-25 11:21       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-25 11:50         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-05 12:17         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-25 17:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-05 20:13 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.17.1299357452.24947.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-07 18:23   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-07 23:10     ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2.1299548219.4111.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-08 16:46       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-08 19:49         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-08 21:34         ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]         ` <mailman.12.1299620228.21372.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-08 21:57           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-09  3:04             ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]             ` <mailman.4.1299640020.25099.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-09 11:20               ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-09 18:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.4.1299703021.13037.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-09 21:34                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10  2:16                     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-12  3:43                       ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.1.1299902822.7270.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-12 18:08                         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-14 13:58                           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-08 18:33     ` Ted Zlatanov
     [not found] <mailman.12.1297821996.25725.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-16 18:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
     [not found] ` <874o836dfv.fsf@lifelogs.com>
2011-02-16 21:22   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-16 21:34     ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-16 22:08     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-18  0:24       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-18  2:37         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-18  8:19           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-18 20:16           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-18 22:43             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-22 21:51               ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-18 23:04             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-22 22:46               ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]               ` <mailman.4.1298416010.11499.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-22 23:47                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-16 21:26   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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