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Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:23:59 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:13:53 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:
SM> - But when I'm asked for a user name there is no default, whereas earlier
SM> my local user name was used as default (which happens to work for me on
SM> most of the machines to which I can connect). Please use the local user
SM> name as default in that prompt.
I'll add that. I thought I did but must have forgotten.
SM> - Also when I'm then asked for a password, the prompt says "Password for
SM> user foo, host bar" which is more verbose but not more clear than
SM> "Password for foo@bar" used in earlier Gnus.
That's the default prompt. Every package can supply their own which
makes sense in context. So nnimap.el could supply the password prompt
"IMAP password for user %u, host %h:%p" for instance. Does that seem OK
to you? If so I can add it to nnimap.el.
SM> - I'm asked whether to save the password regardless of whether the
SM> password and user names are correct or not. That's really bad.
auth-source.el doesn't know at that time whether the authentication will
be successful. I think you're saying we need an `auth-source-save'
function to be called after the fact instead of a ":create t" parameter.
But what about the case where the server is down and yet you know the
password is good? Do we throw it away?
SM> - When I was asked whether to save my password, the cursor was not shown in
SM> the prompt, which looked weird. Maybe it was a temporary redisplay
SM> problem (I hit `n' mechanically pretty quickly, so maybe Emacs didn't
SM> have time to display the cursor).
I'm not sure about that one, I'm just using `read-passwd'.
SM> - If the connection fails (e.g. bad password or bad user name), I don't
SM> get asked again, instead Gnus continues in offline mode.
nnimap.el could use `auth-source-forget+' and then retry that query.
But as above, I think you're saying we need to save/cache AFTER
authentication success.
SM> - After refusing to save the password in authinfo.gpg, I get a message
SM> along the lines of "auth-source-search: CREATED 1 results ...".
SM> I don't care whether "results" is replaced by "result" when there's
SM> only 1, but this looks like a debug message which should disappear.
I think it makes sense to show confirmation that we just added to your
passwords. It's a rare event and deserves notice.
Hiding it by default is quite easy, if you feel strongly about it. I don't.
Thanks for the help, as always.
Ted
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/03/05
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/05
- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/07
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- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/08
- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/08
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/08
- Message not available
- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/08
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/08
- Message not available
- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/09
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/09
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- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/09
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/09