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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: [nnimap gmail] confused by phenomena
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:49:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehcxv2ue.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ehcxonp4.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk>

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "hputnam3"
>>                                   (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")))
>>
>> <this one was added yesterday>
>> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
>>                        '(nnimap "harrygp3"
>>                     (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")))
>
> How is Gnus going to find the relevant .authinfo-line for those select
> methods?
>
> The only thing that differs is the name, and how would Gnus know to
> partially match that with the "login" field in the .authinfo file?
>
>> machine imap.gmail.com login hputnam3@gmail.com password xxxxxxxx port imap
>> machine imap.gmail.com login harrygp3@gmail.com password xxxxxxxx port imap
>
> The manual should be more explicit about how this is handled, I think.

[...]

Well, I did say that I was confused... and can only re-emphasize that.

I guess I don't understand your reasoning here.  Is it not possible
for gnus to find the correct line by the uid?  Nothing partial
involved but an exact match on uid (LOGNAME).

Its obvious I don't have a clue how this actually works... but I would
have thought that as all things in unix/linux if you want to access
the correct account you need and host and login name, right?  Where
does the 'partial' matching you refer to, come in?




  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-23 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-22 10:58 Harry Putnam
2013-05-22 11:09 ` Alberto Luaces
2013-05-22 11:39   ` Harry Putnam
2013-05-23 13:00 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-05-23 20:49   ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2013-05-23 22:11     ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-05-25 21:51       ` Harry Putnam

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