Ken Hornstein <kenh@pobox.com> wrote:
>> -authservice is missing from the inc.1 man page.
> Um, is it? I just looked at my copy, and it's there! And according to
> the revision history that was added in 2016, and nmh 1.7 was released
> in 2017 (and I didn't update the NEWS file for 1.7.1; dammit).
Sorry, I should be more precise.
The values which are valid for "authservice" are not, as far as I can,
mentioned.
> I believe that -authservice gmail does that already (it should use our
> compiled-in default values for gmail, including our registered client
> identifier).
okay, I suggest an example in inc.
> If you mean --gmail does everything like -initialtls, -host, -port, -sasl
> -saslmech xoauth2 and -authservice gmail, weeeellll .... actually, I have
> some thoughts on that.
> Let's say in a hypothetical future we support IMAP. That means that
nearly
> every command would take a whole pile of arguments like -initialtls,
> -host, -port, -sasl, and more. Obviously changing your profile for every
> nmh command would be awful. So there should be some way of handling that.
> What I had thought maybe was tying profile entries to mailboxes, so if
> you did "scan my-imap-server:foo" it could possibly look in your profile
> and find:
Interesting idea.
> You get the idea. But thinking about this more makes me think that we
> should extend this a bit so it's not tied to folders, but a generic
> connection profile defaults and we could provide ones that work with
> Gmail. I don't have it all jelled in my head how this would look and
> you'd need to do something to ADD to an existing connection profile so
> you could supply your own username, for example. But it seems like it
> should be doable. But I guess my idea is that you should be able to
> do something like
> inc -conn gmail -user myuser@gmail.com
> and the right stuff should happen. Make sense?
Yeah, that's what I'd want to happen.
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