[OFF-TOPIC] Re: Alternative mail providers

[Van L]

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.

[1] The nnimap configuration follows:

;; quote
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
             '(nnimap "XXX"
                      (nnimap-address "XXX")
                      (nnimap-server-port XXX)
                      (nnimap-stream ssl)
                      (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo.gpg")))
;; quote ends

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