]> Sergey Matveev's repositories - public-inbox.git/commitdiff
README: recommend AUTH=ANONYMOUS on IMAP URLs
authorEric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Mon, 8 Aug 2022 23:16:48 +0000 (23:16 +0000)
committerEric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Tue, 9 Aug 2022 16:41:49 +0000 (16:41 +0000)
public-inbox-imapd prioritizes AUTH=ANONYMOUS clients, nowadays,
since it's a good heuristic for legitimate client traffic.

README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 364ef7e0fcee28ec22096ed2b3a919bfbddb8a6a..0108931484aea49b78996257f40a4a75736cb029 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -117,16 +117,16 @@ on git@vger.kernel.org).
 The archives are readable via IMAP, NNTP or HTTP:
 
        nntps://news.public-inbox.org/inbox.comp.mail.public-inbox.meta
-       imaps://news.public-inbox.org/inbox.comp.mail.public-inbox.meta.0
+       imaps://;AUTH=ANONYMOUS@public-inbox.org/inbox.comp.mail.public-inbox.meta.0
        https://public-inbox.org/meta/
 
-AUTH=ANONYMOUS is supported for IMAP, but any username + password works
+AUTH=ANONYMOUS is recommended for IMAP, but any username + password works
 
 And as Tor hidden services:
 
        http://4uok3hntl7oi7b4uf4rtfwefqeexfzil2w6kgk2jn5z2f764irre7byd.onion/meta/
        nntp://4uok3hntl7oi7b4uf4rtfwefqeexfzil2w6kgk2jn5z2f764irre7byd.onion/inbox.comp.mail.public-inbox.meta
-       imap://4uok3hntl7oi7b4uf4rtfwefqeexfzil2w6kgk2jn5z2f764irre7byd.onion/inbox.comp.mail.public-inbox.meta.0
+       imap://;AUTH=ANONYMOUS@4uok3hntl7oi7b4uf4rtfwefqeexfzil2w6kgk2jn5z2f764irre7byd.onion/inbox.comp.mail.public-inbox.meta.0
 
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