Re: nnimap 0.3.13 released

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

jrp@informix.com (Joshua R. Poulson) writes:

> > Nnimap now uses ~/.authinfo, like nntp, for the username/password
> > stuff.
> 
> There are, of course, problems with this if you have more than one
> service on a single host. For example, whe I port-forward through a
> firewall, ALL of my outside connections appear as different sockets on
> localhost. Since I do this for four different IMAP servers, it leads
> to difficulty.
> 
> I managed to get myself into a infinite loop involving passwords until
> I commented out all but one of my servers.

Uhm, you're right, didn't think of this.  Darn, I thought the .netrc
stuff would be clean and elegant.

I think I know how to solve it.

/s