nnimap-authinfo-file: Bad customization options

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2002-04-21 on benny-ppc.crocodial.de
configured using `configure  --without-toolkit-scroll-bars'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I tried to customize the variable nnimap-authinfo-file.  The
customization form gives the option to specify authentication info
inline.  This doesn't work.  The only time the variable is used in
nnimap.el, it is passed as a parameter to gnus-parse-netrc and that
function only accepts a file name string, but not a preparsed list of
any kind.


Recent input:
r t C-g C-g <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x C-f C-g C-g 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-s C-s C-s C-s <C-left> <C-left> 
<C-left> C-h f <return> C-x o <end> <left> <left> <left> 
<return> <help-echo> <C-home> <next> <next> C-s n n 
i m a p - a t h <backspace> <backspace> u t h <C-home> 
C-x k <C-home> C-s C-s C-s C-s <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <up> M-x r e p o r t - <tab> <tab> <return>

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