From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Jonathan Marten <jjm@keelhaul.me.uk>
Cc: 24704@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24704: 24.5; nnimap: anonymous login to IMAP server not working
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:25:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efjkmatx.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1869270.bxo84pOxvy@keelhaul> (Jonathan Marten's message of "Sun, 16 Oct 2016 06:06:19 +0100")
Jonathan Marten <jjm@keelhaul.me.uk> writes:
> Stepping through nnimap-login in nnimap.el shows that the parameters passed to
> it are user="anonymous", password=(email address). The problem seems to be
> that nnimap-authenticator=anonymous is not handled by any of the conditions in
> this function, so no login is sent. Applying the patch:
>
> --- /usr/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/gnus/nnimap.el 2015-04-02 08:23:06.000000000
> +0100
> +++ nnimap.el 2016-10-16 05:53:16.043526259 +0100
> @@ -504,6 +504,7 @@
> ((and (not (nnimap-capability "LOGINDISABLED"))
> (eq (nnimap-stream-type nnimap-object) 'tls)
> (or (null nnimap-authenticator)
> + (eq nnimap-authenticator 'anonymous)
(etc)
Thanks; applied to Emacs 27.1.
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2016-10-16 5:06 bug#24704: 24.5; nnimap: anonymous login to IMAP server not working Jonathan Marten
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