lisp/gnus/auth-source.el (auth-sources): Add pointer to what the .gpg extension in `auth-sources' means and link to EPA docs

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog b/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
index 8b2f3abf84e..a3601390496 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-02-13  Teodor Zlatanov  <tzz@lifelogs.com>
+
+        * auth-source.el (auth-sources): Add pointer to what the .gpg extension
+        in `auth-sources' means and link to EPA docs.
+
 2014-02-12  Lars Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@gnus.org>
 
         * nnmail.el (nnmail-expand-newtext): Further sub-match fixups
diff --git a/lisp/gnus/auth-source.el b/lisp/gnus/auth-source.el
index 6cdc3a853b9..6efd52d6abc 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/auth-source.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/auth-source.el
@@ -237,6 +237,11 @@ Each entry is the authentication type with optional properties.
 Entries are tried in the order in which they appear.
 See Info node `(auth)Help for users' for details.
 
+If an entry names a file with the \".gpg\" extension and you have
+EPA/EPG set up, the file will be encrypted and decrypted
+automatically.  See Info node `(epa)Encrypting/decrypting gpg files'
+for details.
+
 It's best to customize this with `M-x customize-variable' because the choices
 can get pretty complex."
   :group 'auth-source