Re: bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:32:20 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 
wrote: 

>> that I'm tempted to go back to just storing this data in the plain-text
>> ~/.authinfo file until all this has been worked out.

SM> No!!!! Or only after prompting the user five times for
SM> (different) confirmation.

>> When writing the ~/.authinfo.gpg file, the user should be queried one
>> thing: "Password for ~/.authinfo.gpg: ****".  And that's it, in my
>> extremely humble opinion.

SM> I partly agree, though some users won't have a key-pair setup, others
SM> will have several, so the right thing to do may be either to use
SM> symmetric encryption, or to guess which key-pair to use, and since it's
SM> a guess there needs to be a way for the user to override the guess.

I would use assistant.el to do this kind of interaction.  It's really a
two-stage query:

1) symmetric encryption or not?

2) if not, select recipients...

which assistant.el should be able to handle.  Maybe we should continue
the discussion in emacs-devel, though.

Ted