syntax for movemail (mailutils), apop, rmail

syntax for movemail (mailutils), apop, rmail

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Hi,

movemail in mailutils supports APOP, but the syntax for it does not
allow for a password: 

  pop://<USER>;auth=+APOP@<HOST>

but

  pop://<USER>:<PASSWORD>;auth=+APOP@<HOST>

is interpreted as having the user <USER>:<PASSWORD>.  Currently it
seems that it is impossible to use POP + AUTH with rmail unless one
wishes to be asked for a password, or use emacs movemail.  Problem
with the later is that emacs movemail does not support imap; and as a
result you cannot have multiple mailboxes that use imap and apop.

Would it be able to make mailutils movemail support a password in the
URI, or make rmail handle rmail-remote-password better to always try
it when something asks for a password?  The last solution isn't the
best one, but it work.

Cheers.

Re: syntax for movemail (mailutils), apop, rmail

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

I solved it by doing:

(setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '(
				 "imap://ams:PASSWORD@HOST"
				 "pop://ams;AUTH=+APOP@HOST"
				 ))
(setq rmail-remote-password "PASSWORD")
(setq rmail-remote-password-required t)

Alas, if one has multiple APOP hosts, then one cannot have
different passwords for each.

Re: syntax for movemail (mailutils), apop, rmail

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

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Hi Alfred,

>   pop://<USER>:<PASSWORD>;auth=+APOP@<HOST>
> 
> is interpreted as having the user <USER>:<PASSWORD>.

Thanks for noticing.  Please, try the attached patch.

Regards,
Sergey


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Index: mailbox/url.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/mailutils/mailutils/mailbox/url.c,v
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -p -u -r1.32 url.c
--- mailbox/url.c	16 Aug 2008 08:21:32 -0000	1.32
+++ mailbox/url.c	14 Oct 2008 13:42:37 -0000
@@ -260,12 +260,17 @@ url_parse0 (mu_url_t u, char *name)
 	      /* Try to split the user into a:
 		 <user>:<password>
 		 or
-		 <user>;AUTH=<auth>
+		 <user>:<password>;AUTH=<auth>
 	      */
 
 	      for (; *name; name++)
 		{
-		  if (*name == ';')
+		  if (*name == ':')
+		    {
+		      *name++ = 0;
+		      u->passwd = name;
+		    }
+		  else if (*name == ';')
 		    {
 		      /* Make sure it's the auth token. */
 		      if (strncasecmp (name + 1, "auth=", 5) == 0)
@@ -276,12 +281,6 @@ url_parse0 (mu_url_t u, char *name)
 			  break;
 			}
 		    }
-		  if (*name == ':')
-		    {
-		      *name++ = 0;
-		      u->passwd = name;
-		      break;
-		    }
 		}
 	    }
 

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