Re: [Nmh-workers] post now asking for a password, even when it doesn't have to

[David Levine]

Ken wrote:

> It turns out even though I tested this, I wasn't actually using some of
> the backend programs until now ... like post.  D'oh!
> 
> Anyway, I discovered that now post(8) is always asking me for a username
> and password ... even when it doesn't need to (my sasl mechanism doesn't
> require them).

I didn't expect that:  I thought that a username and password were
always required here.

> The change that caused this is b9763fdd7e96e7ac8bdb1, and
> the key issue is that in the third argument for sm_get_credentials() is
> now "0", instead of "1" (like it used to be).
>
> I went back and looked at the mailing list, and that discussion was here:
> 
>     http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2013-05/msg00005.html

If that argument is changed to "1", it breaks Valdis's use case.

I think that the nmh_get_credentials() call needs to move back
to sm_get_pass().  We might want to do that with inc and msgchk,
too.

> But I guess I don't understand why post now behaves differently than inc
> and msgchk, which are also sasl-aware programs.  Can someone fill me in
> here?

My read of the code was that post did behave differently than
inc and msgchk.  See commit 52a236230220, the diffs of the inc.c
and msgchk.c are straightforward.

David