From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32602 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tony Lam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Switching to nnimap Date: 26 Sep 2000 12:44:40 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <2tlhf739bvb.fsf@mail.zoso> References: <2tlaecv85ik.fsf@mail.zoso> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168861 20767 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:54:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:54:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E5C3D051E for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 16:01:13 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAC06208; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:00:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:00:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00975 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:59:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mercury.Sun.COM (mercury.Sun.COM [192.9.25.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D00AD051E for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 16:00:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from zoso.Eng.Sun.COM ([129.144.14.1]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA26265 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:00:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from philly.zoso.eng.sun.com (philly [129.144.14.61]) by zoso.Eng.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v1.7) with SMTP id NAA07187 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:00:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: 21.2 (beta35) "Nike" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-4 I) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Simon Josefsson's message of "26 Sep 2000 19:21:54 +0200" Original-Lines: 39 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32602 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32602 => Today, Simon Josefsson(S) wrote: S> Tony Lam writes: >> | (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods >> | '(nnimap "imapserver" S> ^ >> | (nnimap-address "imapserver.eng.sun.com") >> | (nnimap-list-pattern '("INBOX" ("Mail/nnimap/" . "*"))) S> ^ S> You're quoting things twice here. Remove the second '. This explain S> why `nnimap-list-pattern' doesn't work. It still doesn't work, it tries to list all files in my home directory when I scan the server. Here's the current value of my gnus-secondary-select-methods: ,---- | ((nnimap "" | (nnimap-address "imapserver.eng.sun.com") | (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" ("Mail/nnimap/" . "*")))) | (nnimap "imapserver" | (nnimap-address "imapserver.eng.sun.com") | (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" ("Mail/nnimap/" . "*")))) | (nnfolder "")) `---- >> | (nnimap-username tonyl) S> This variable doesn't exist. Please read about .authinfo in the S> manual. This explain why `nnimap-username' doesn't work. Ok, this works fine with nnimap-authinfo-file. Thanks again for your help. -- Tony