Re: authentication in gnus vs. pine

["Jody M. Klymak" <jklymak@apl.washington.edu>]

Hi John,


>>>>> "JP" == John Palmieri <palmieri@math.washington.edu> writes:

    JP> This feels like it might be a stupid question, but everyone
    JP> needs a hobby, right?

    JP> When I run pine, it accesses my IMAP server automatically; why
    JP> do I need to tell gnus a username and password?  (Or: how
    JP> should I configure gnus and nnimap so that I don't need to
    JP> give it a password or have a .authinfo file or anything?)

    JP> (Maybe pine is using the /etc/hosts file, which happens to
    JP> list the IMAP server, or some similar file?  I'm not quite
    JP> sure what I'm looking for here; any suggestions?)

It must be something like that because when I use Pine to access IMAP
mailboxes on another machine I need to supply a password just like for
gnus.  Of course, I'm surprised that gnus requires the passwd if your
/etc/hosts is set - that seems like it could be changed, but I'm not
familiar with how connecting via IMAP works.

My solution is to have a .authinfo, which works fine.

Cheers,  Jody

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