Kyle Meyer <k...@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-...@yhbt.net/
