Re: Still pounding nnimap and odd gmail behavior

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>>
>>> And this in .authinfo
>>>
>>> machine imap.gmail.com login acc1@gmail.com password xxxxxxxx port imap
>>> machine imap.gmail.com login acc2@gmail.com password xxxxxxxx port imap
>>
>> I used to have two gmail accounts.  The trick, for me, was to give
>> machines different names:
>>
>> machine acc1 login acc1@gmail.com ...
>> machine acc2 login acc2@gmail.com ...
>>
>> given the nnimap entries you have defined in your .gnus.el file.  The
>> actual IMAP server has already been specified using nnimap-address.
>>
>> Not sure if this would make any difference in your case but it may be
>> worth trying?
>
> Haven't tried your suggestion yet.  But want to get clarity on something.
>
>
> Enrico Schumann <es@enricoschumann.net> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> You could try to change .authinfo like this:
>>
>> machine acc1 login acc1@gmail.com password xxxxxxxx port imap force yes
>> machine acc2 login acc2@gmail.com password xxxxxxxx port imap force yes
>>
>>
>> (That worked for me with several IMAP accounts with the same
>> nnimap-address, but that was not gmail.)
>
> Same thing to clarify here.
>
> Do you mean like so:
>
> ('password xxxxxxxx' has been elided to shorten)
>
>  machine loginname1 login loginname1@gmail.com [...] port imap force yes
>  machine loginname2 login loginname2@gmail.com [...] port imap force yes

No: loginname1 and loginname2 are not actually login names but the names
you gave for each of the nnimap settings, which is why I wrote "acc1"
and "acc2" in the above lines as they are what you told gnus to call
your accounts.

I think you are getting confused by "machine" in all of this.  The
actual host that will be queried, and to which the login and password
information will be passed, is specified in the nnimap configuration as
nnimap-address.  The machine entry here is just a label as far as gnus
is concerned.

Try it and see.

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