From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83227 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [nnimap gmail] confused by phenomena Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 17:51:01 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <874ndqzq2i.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87obc3jn69.fsf@newsguy.com> <87ehcxonp4.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87ehcxv2ue.fsf@newsguy.com> <87y5b5mjni.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369518848 22396 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2013 21:54:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 21:54:08 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31493@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 25 23:54:07 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UgMPd-0007NP-L4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 23:54:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1UgMNq-0005BI-OL; Sat, 25 May 2013 16:52:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1UgMNj-0005Ax-25 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 25 May 2013 16:52:07 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UgMNc-00061e-W2 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 25 May 2013 16:52:06 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UgMNa-00013t-VH for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 23:51:58 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UgMNY-0005Hv-TZ for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 23:51:56 +0200 Original-Received: from z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com ([65.50.57.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 23:51:56 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 23:51:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 51 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mYaI/2PmJqf2L0jxkKnBUNHdbos= X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83227 Archived-At: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: > Oh, and I think Eric S Fraga's suggestion is the obvious one to try, > i.e. try this: > > (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "a-nice-name" > (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com"))) > > (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods > '(nnimap "the-other" > (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com"))) > > machine a-nice-name login hputnam3@gmail.com password xxxxxxxx port imap > machine the-other login harrygp3@gmail.com password xxxxxxxx port imap > > Where you can replace "a-nice-name" and "the-other" with whatever you > want; I merely choose something different than "hputnam3" and "harrygp3" > to make it explicit that they don't have to have anything to do with > your email-addresses/the login fields. > > Actually, I just tried that with two gmail-accounts, and it worked. Thank you Adam And especially you Eric For putting your finger directly on the source of my confusion... The term 'machine'; where I expected it to equate to 'host' as it does in many thousands of conversations between linux/unix users. And for that matter as it does in all but the imap lines in (my) .authinfo For example this one: 'machine enews.newsguy.com login reader password xxxxxxx' enews.newsguy.com is a real hostname that needs to be queried about the UID reader.... Its not a 'LABEL' that needs to match the UID. And thanks to all posters in both of my threads for showing uncommon patience with profound ill-informedness (political correctness for deep seated dunce) on my part. PS - The suggestions by Eric and a few others in these threads have worked admirably: (wrapped for mail) machine hputnam3 login hputnam3@gmail.com \ password xxxxxx port imap force yes machine harrygp3 login harrygp3@gmail.com \ password xxxxxx port imap force yes Yup, that works