From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83215 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [nnimap gmail] confused by phenomena Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:49:29 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87ehcxv2ue.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87obc3jn69.fsf@newsguy.com> <87ehcxonp4.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 1369342328 27281 80.91.229.3 (23 May 2013 20:52:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 20:52:08 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31481@lists.math.uh.edu Thu May 23 22:52:07 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 1UfcUY-0004uf-SV for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 23 May 2013 22:52:07 +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 1UfcSw-0001Zr-Cq; Thu, 23 May 2013 15:50:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1UfcSu-0001Ze-KH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 23 May 2013 15:50:24 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UfcSm-000386-Rl for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 23 May 2013 15:50:21 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UfcSk-0001by-T1 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 23 May 2013 22:50:14 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UfcSj-0003tF-5G for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 23 May 2013 22:50:13 +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 ; Thu, 23 May 2013 22:50:13 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 May 2013 22:50:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 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:iIPPtwqsbxwwQZtPDn1g9gG37/Y= X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83215 Archived-At: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "hputnam3" >> (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com"))) >> >> >> (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?