Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Re: Alternative mail providers

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Van L <van@scratch.space> writes:

> Amin Bandali writes:
>
>>>
>>> Has anyone had success in using a
>>> .authinfo.gpg for Gnus?
>>>
>>
>> I didn’t have any trouble setting it up to use with the nnimap backend.
>> Does a line like this not work in your ~/.authinfo.gpg?
>>
>> machine accnamehere login email@here password passwordhere
>>
>> Though there does seem to be a bug such that long username+password
>> combinations cause the password to be truncated when calling the IMAP
>
> That could be the problem for me. 
>
> Gnus prompts for the gpg
> passphrase but then does not use
> the line within .authinfo.gpg . It
> asks for the name and password
> again and writes to .authinfo file 
> despite the nnimap configuration [1]
> having .authinfo.gpg as the file
> to use.

I think forced this by setting `auth-sources' unconditionally to
'("~/.authinfo.gpg"). That way it had no choice but to use the encrypted
version.