Re: New mailing list archive at https://orgmode/list/

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net> writes:

> Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
>> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
>> 
>> > Hey, that works great! It's a bit weird that it still asks for a
>> > username and password, I wonder if there's any way to skip that. I've
>> > never dealt with anonymous IMAP before -- is there anything in the
>> > connection process that explicitly tells us "you don't need to log on"?
>> 
>> The server advertises AUTH=ANONYMOUS as a capability [*], so Gnus could
>> detect that and send "AUTHENTICATE ANONYMOUS", I _think_.
>
> Fwiw, mutt detects AUTH=ANONYMOUS and uses it automatically,
> so I think it's reasonable for Gnus and others do the same.

Looks like it would be as simple as the attached diff. I have very
little confidence in my understanding of the potential ramifications,
though, so I'll open an Emacs bug and see what other people think.

Eric

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