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_. [*] https://public-inbox.org/meta/20200610070519.18252-...@yhbt.net/ > Otherwise, I guess it doesn't hurt just to save a bogus > username/password and forget about it. Yeah, I went with that approach. But poking around a bit in nnimap.el, it seems another option would be (nnimap "news.yhetil.org" (nnimap-authenticator anonymous))
