From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus not using authinfo
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:28:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp1knlez.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1.1299696694.13037.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:51:23 -0500 Joel James Adamson <adamsonj@email.unc.edu> wrote:
JJA> adamsonj@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson) writes:
>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>
>>> In general I'd say please use the latest Gnus even if you can't use the
>>> latest Emacs. That has the latest auth-source.el as well. It's quite
>>> easy to just upgrade Gnus and there's been a LOT of improvements in Gnus
>>> since 23.2.
>>
>> I can tell: my main reason for using Emacs from Bazaar was that Gnus'
>> IMAP handling had improved so much. I will respond to the rest of your
>> message later,
JJA> Here are the *Messages* with auth-source-debug set to t:
JJA> imap: Connecting with STARTTLS...done
JJA> Waiting for response from imap.unc.edu...done
JJA> Parsing authinfo file `~/.authinfo'.
JJA> auth-source-user-or-password: get (login password) for UNC (143)
JJA> /home/joel/.authinfo: 0% (0/114)
JJA> /home/joel/.authinfo: 100% (114/114)
JJA> auth-source-user-or-password: found (login password)=SECRET for UNC (143)
JJA> imap: Authenticating to `imap.unc.edu' using `login'...
JJA> imap: Plaintext authentication...
JJA> imap: Login successful...
JJA> imap: Authenticating to `imap.unc.edu' using `login'...done
JJA> And here's the authinfo file:
JJA> machine imap.unc.edu login adamsonj password SECRET port imap
JJA> machine smtp.unc.edu login adamsonj password SECRET port 587
You need to make the port "143" instead of "imap" (no quotes). It may
also work to omit the port, I don't remember.
Yes, that's not nice. `auth-source-search' in the newer auth-source.el
is more capable.
Ted
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2011-03-09 15:17 ` Gnus not using authinfo Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-09 17:58 ` Joel J. Adamson
2011-03-09 18:51 ` Joel James Adamson
[not found] ` <mailman.1.1299696694.13037.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-09 19:28 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-03-09 19:46 ` Joel James Adamson
2011-03-08 19:26 Joel James Adamson
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