Re: Howto specify password and AUTH field in POP url ?

[Olivier Bornet]

Hello,

> > Interesting. What it will be also usefull is to have some kind of
> > "auto-auth" feature. This mean : use the most secure way when possible.
> > For example, with a POP account, I want to try +APOP first, and if this
> > fails, try without APOP. It this already possible ?
> 
> No, that to is not possible.

OK. I will do this "by hand". This mean, first try APOP, then clear
password.

> Most of the mailutils API isn't documented, you probably have noticed,
> except for (maybe) function prototypes, which aren't always right, and
> certainly aren't enough to use the API.

I agree with this. Altough I think the documentation is already a good
starting point.

> I would like to move the API documentation into the .c files, in the
> form of doxygen comments. I have a (ruby) script which converts
> doxygen's xml output to texinfo that I was experimenting with. Yet
> another thing to do.

This seems to be a great think to use some doxygen stuff for documenting
the API : so, the documentation may follow up the implementation more
easy.

Thanks for your help.

                Olivier
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