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bug#41951: 28.0.50; Automatically detect AUTH=ANONYMOUS in Gnus nnimap?
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#41951: 28.0.50; Automatically detect AUTH=ANONYMOUS in Gnus nnimap? |
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Sun, 19 Jul 2020 06:03:06 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Hmm, but `nnimap-credentials->auth-source-search' will prompt for auth
> details and save them if none are found, which is the behavior I was
> trying to avoid to begin with.
We could change that to not prompt if AUTH=ANONYMOUS is available?
> Meh, this probably isn't the right thing to do. The manual specifically
> says (about `nnimap-authenticator'):
>
> "Some IMAP servers allow anonymous logins. In that case, this should be
> set to ‘anonymous’. If this variable isn’t set, the normal login
> methods will be used."
>
> So implicitly short-circuiting the normal login procedure is actually
> contrary to the documentation, which says do it explicitly. I'm inclined
> to drop this...
Yeah, it's pretty obscure anyway, isn't it?
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