From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: wrong argument in gnus.el Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 03:34:43 +0100 Message-ID: <877c7bmhmk.fsf@web.de> References: <0cd25b63-778f-456f-a11f-b2afe70f20a3@posteo.de> <3495ff03-b674-4832-9521-5272883834c3@posteo.de> Reply-To: Michael Heerdegen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34483"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:S6FLYK/uFEF6AGsmJqTVCSC4Kfg= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 04 03:34:17 2025 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tTtzV-0008pW-3w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2025 03:34:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tTtz2-0000DK-2N; Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:33:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tTtyy-0000Cj-Sb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:33:45 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tTtyx-0004TW-2Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:33:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tTtys-0008Kp-8g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2025 03:33:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.204, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:149133 Archived-At: Gottfried writes: > 1. > I have got this in my ".authinfo" file: > > machine posteo login gottfried@posteo.de password my_password port 993 > imaps > machine posteo login gottfried@posteo.de password my_password port 465 > > or only one sentence: > machine posteo login gottfried@posteo.de port imaps password my_password > but this sentence seems to be wrong. missing the port number. > > I don´t know which of the two is better? I don't have a clue. My guess is that the posteo entry is not found in your file because the machine name must be something like "imap.posteo.de" or "posteo.de". The name of the server you want to log in to. Maybe someone else knows. > Independently of that there is may be an other mistake somewhere. > > 2. > I tried to put the .authinfo file in my .config/emacs folder > or also in my /home/gfp folder > In both cases it doesn´t work. > > Is it better to put the .authinfo file into .config/emacs or into the > home folder /home/gfp ? It is searched for at any of the locations in `auth-sources', which defaults to ("~/.authinfo" "~/.authinfo.gpg" "~/.netrc"). Michael.