Re: bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> As far as auth-source is concerned, it could have backend initialization
> functionality that, when a backend (e.g. a .gpg file) doesn't exist,
> will run specific functions, including creating a .gpg file with
> symmetric encryption.  But right now it simply lets EPA handle everything.

It might make sense to have auth-source control that, but I think it
would be better if this was controlled by the user "centrally" in Emacs
somewhere.

And default to symmetric encryption, unless there's are some obvious
hints somewhere that the user doesn't want that, like if a gpg agent is
present and can be used.  (I don't really know how that works, so I'm
not sure whether that's feasible.)

I've spent the evening testing out starting Gnus as a blank slate, with
just

(setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "imap.gmail.com"))

in .emacs, and absolutely nothing else.  I've cleaned up some
weirdnesses in that area, but now the .gpg thing is really the only
major "er, what?" thing a new user should encounter in this scenario.

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