From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to develop an automatic gnus mail set up thing for gnus users. Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:27:09 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84heb7yzyq.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <8765rnajpc.fsf@server.crasseux.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045214926 19651 80.91.224.249 (14 Feb 2003 09:28:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:28:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18jc9D-00056V-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:28:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18jcAy-0003Yv-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 04:30:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951faea.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951faea.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.250.234) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1045214871 46998196 217.81.250.234 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:A04dVlcM5nQn5lN50LUVBUDEtiY= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110179 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6682 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6682 Bijan Soleymani writes: > There are certain small problems with that form: > > 1)What if I don't have a fully qualified domain name. (I do, but what > if I didnt', what if i'm a floating dynamic ip?) It seems the setting isn't used (much) in the resulting config. > 2)You don't ask about the mail username, explicitly. Is the username > the same thing as the pop username? Then why is there (system) in > quotation. My mail username and system username are different. Good question. > 3)Sending password in cleartext is not very safe... > I don't believe in security, but some people do. I trust that people can enter XYZ and then replace that with their passwd :-) -- A turnip curses Elvis