From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 41951@debbugs.gnu.org, 41951-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41951: 28.0.50; Automatically detect AUTH=ANONYMOUS in Gnus nnimap?
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 21:12:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo30b0se.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2ngrw1x.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 19 Jul 2020 06:03:06 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Hmm, but `nnimap-credentials->auth-source-search' will prompt for auth
>> details and save them if none are found, which is the behavior I was
>> trying to avoid to begin with.
>
> We could change that to not prompt if AUTH=ANONYMOUS is available?
>
>> Meh, this probably isn't the right thing to do. The manual specifically
>> says (about `nnimap-authenticator'):
>>
>> "Some IMAP servers allow anonymous logins. In that case, this should be
>> set to ‘anonymous’. If this variable isn’t set, the normal login
>> methods will be used."
>>
>> So implicitly short-circuiting the normal login procedure is actually
>> contrary to the documentation, which says do it explicitly. I'm inclined
>> to drop this...
>
> Yeah, it's pretty obscure anyway, isn't it?
Yup. Sorry for the noise.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-19 17:41 bug#41951: 28.0.50; Automatically detect AUTH=ANONYMOUS in Gnus nnimap? Eric Abrahamsen
2020-07-19 1:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-07-19 3:14 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-07-19 3:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-07-19 3:20 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-07-19 3:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-07-19 4:01 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-07-19 4:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-07-19 4:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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