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bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:37:35 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>> I think this is fixed in the Gnus trunk as far as the auth-source
>>>> credentials go (Lars will have to fix the nnimap code failure on empty
>>>> credentials).
With today's code, I could connect again, thank you.
But the prompts are poor:
- for the user name, the prompt says something like "[USER?]diro:143",
which is very cryptic. While I know why there's a "143" there,
there's no reason to expect users to know that (my .gnus doesn't
mention any port number). Worse: I really have no clue what the "USER?"
is about.
- for the password, the prompt again mentioned 143, which I also thing
is not warranted.
- then I get prompted to save the password, which is the worst of the
three:
- the prompt is *very* long (more than 80 chars).
- it includes the password in cleartext (WTF?).
- none of the extra data is really something I care about when
deciding whether I want to save my password in .authinfo.gpg.
It's just distracting from the main issue.
-- Stefan
- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, (continued)
bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/02/23
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bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/25
Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/16
bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/02/16