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bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:16:03 -0600 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:37:35 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:
SM> - for the user name, the prompt says something like "[USER?]diro:143",
SM> which is very cryptic. While I know why there's a "143" there,
SM> there's no reason to expect users to know that (my .gnus doesn't
SM> mention any port number). Worse: I really have no clue what the "USER?"
SM> is about.
SM> - for the password, the prompt again mentioned 143, which I also thing
SM> is not warranted.
SM> - then I get prompted to save the password, which is the worst of the
SM> three:
SM> - the prompt is *very* long (more than 80 chars).
SM> - it includes the password in cleartext (WTF?).
Yeah, I see now it was a mistake the way I did it.
SM> - none of the extra data is really something I care about when
SM> deciding whether I want to save my password in .authinfo.gpg.
SM> It's just distracting from the main issue.
I *very much* care what goes into that file and want to see the exact
text. So find my proposal to accomodate normal and obsessive users
alike below :)
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:19:58 -0800 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
LI> The prompts should simply be
LI> "User name for diro:imap: "
LI> and
LI> "Password for diro:imap: "
LI> Or something like that. Well, really, the host name should be the
LI> (real) fully qualified host name, if possible, but that may not be
LI> feasible.
OK, I'll work on improving those prompts.
>> - then I get prompted to save the password, which is the worst of the
>> three:
LI> Yes, it should just say "Save the password for future sessions? " and
LI> not much more.
How about:
"Save the $HOSTNAME password for future sessions? y/n/s/?"
where `s' shows the line we will add with the password replaced by ****?
Ted