Re: Help with Gmail

[David Levine]

Ken writes:

> >> #       The password for POP service when the -sasl switch is used
> >> #       with one of these programs is the login name on the local
> >> #       machine.
> >>
> >> I've re-read that last paragraph ... and I realize that I do not
> >> understand it.
> >
> >The description or the semantics?  It really did/does use the login
> >name for the password.  I think it's long past time that we remove
> >that.
>
> Is that ... correct?  I am looking at the code and I cannot convince myself
> that statement is true.  It is entirely possible that it USED to be that way
> but I don't think that is true for 1.7.1 (I mean, besides the bug in 1.7.1).

Right, it used to be that way, see end of
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2013-04/msg00014.html
and dates from before nmh's move to git.

Fortunately, it isn't that way any more.  It was fixed in commit
90edb255effd0d2 (thanks!).  I'll update the man page.

David