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Re: Dovecot not liking .authinfo?
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Randal L. Schwartz |
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Re: Dovecot not liking .authinfo? |
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Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:57:47 -0800 |
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>>>>> "Slackrat" == Slackrat <slackrat4Q@azurservers.com> writes:
Slackrat> * Jim Crossley <jim@crossleys.org> a écrit
>> This probably isn't a gnus problem, but I've used gnus with a lot of
>> different IMAP servers and I've never had a problem with putting my
>> credentials in ~/.authinfo.
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>> I'm trying out a dovecot imap server, and gnus simply will not
>> authenticate to it with what's in ~/.authinfo. It prompts me every
>> time! The perms are correct, and it works with other imap servers.
>> I've looked at the dovecot.conf but nothing looks strange, and I'm
>> pretty much using the debian defaults.
It's working just fine for me. The problem with dovecot is that it's
hyper-configurable. :) This is what I have in my .authinfo:
machine smtp.example.com login merlyn password try_to_guess port imap
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