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Re: Gnus and pgp


From: Richard Riley
Subject: Re: Gnus and pgp
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:36:58 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:19:38 +0100 Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> 
> wrote: 
>
> RR> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>> On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:42:48 +0100 Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote: 
>>> 
> RR> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>>>> Let's debug it.  Run the following in a clean (emacs -q) instance:
>>>>> 
>>>>> (require 'epa-file)
>>>>> (require 'auth-source)
>>>>> (require 'cl)
>>>>> (epa-file-enable)
>>>>> (setq auth-source-debug t ; use `message' to log messages
>>>>> epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption t
>>>>> auth-sources '((:source "~/.authinfo.gpg" :host t :protocol t)))
>>>>> (auth-source-user-or-password "login" "richardriley.net" "imap")
>>>>> 
>>>>> What does the last call return (should be your login name)?  What's in
>>>>> *Messages*?
>>> 
> RR> It returns my login name ok. 
>>> 
> RR> *Messages* just has
>>> 
> RR> auth-source-user-or-password: found (login)=(shamrock) for 
> richardriley.net (imap)
> RR> "shamrock"
>>> 
> RR> I also got prompted for a symmetric password to unlock the authinfo.gpg
>>> 
> RR> Note that my login name for the remote host is, in this case, the same
> RR> as my local login id.
>>> 
>>> If this works, it should work for all other IMAP cases as well.  Look at
>>> nnimap.el, it has the same call in nnimap-open-connection.  Can you try
>>> the auth-source-user-or-password call inside your regular sessions
>>> (instead of `emacs -q'), where auth-source.el doesn't work for you?  Is
>>> there something you see that might hint what the problem is?
>>> 
>>> Ted
>
> RR> The issue was with nntp selects not other IMAPS as  recall.
>
> Can you try the call with "nntp" as the protocol and the right host name?
>
> Ted

It returns nil.


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