Re: New mailing list archive at https://orgmode/list/

[Eric Wong]

Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
> 
> > Hey, that works great! It's a bit weird that it still asks for a
> > username and password, I wonder if there's any way to skip that. I've
> > never dealt with anonymous IMAP before -- is there anything in the
> > connection process that explicitly tells us "you don't need to log on"?
> 
> The server advertises AUTH=ANONYMOUS as a capability [*], so Gnus could
> detect that and send "AUTHENTICATE ANONYMOUS", I _think_.

Fwiw, mutt detects AUTH=ANONYMOUS and uses it automatically,
so I think it's reasonable for Gnus and others do the same.

> [*] https://public-inbox.org/meta/20200610070519.18252-1-e@yhbt.net/