multiple Gmail accounts + nnimap + ~/.authinfo

multiple Gmail accounts + nnimap + ~/.authinfo

[Suno Ano]

hi folks,

now that I have been told that my issue is not with me but Gnus is (as
of now) unable to do it I'd like to hear what others think about it.

The permalink: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/10798

Re: multiple Gmail accounts + nnimap + ~/.authinfo

[Ted Zlatanov]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gnu.emacs.gnus as well.

On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:30:44 +0200 Suno Ano <suno.ano@googlemail.com> wrote: 

>> | On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:31:30 -0500,
>> | Ted Zlatanov
>> | from the organization of Теодор Златанов @ Cienfuegos
>> | who can be reached at: tzz@lifelogs.com
>> | (whose comments are cited below with " Ted> "),
>> | had this to say in article <86hceb6ikt.fsf@lifelogs.com>
>> | in newsgroups gmane.emacs.gnus.user
>> | concerning the subject of Re: multiple Gmail accounts + nnimap + ~/.authinfo
>> | (see <mailman.10199.1207755910.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org> for more details)

Ted> ...Assuming your method is called "gmail1"?
SA> well, it's called "<gmail_1>@gmail.com" but then that should not make a
SA> difference to calling it just "gmail1" -  yes?

Right, it was just for the example.

Ted> We could also make 'machine' a more complex field, but I don't
Ted> like that approach.
SA> Why is it you do not like it?

It's harder to parse and write.  I usually try to keep files like
~/.authinfo free of Gnus-specific extensions because other systems may
break when they parse it.

Another approach is to have a specific authinfo file for each server.  I
don't like that approach much.

Ted> Any opinions?
SA> Well, before I used nnimap I used nnml as back end. With this back end
SA> and the following snippet it worked like charm. Maybe we could try it
SA> this way for nnimap too? What do others think about it?

SA> (add-to-list 'mail-sources `(imap :server    ,priv-imap-gmail-mail-server
SA>                                   :user      ,priv-gmail1-mail-user
SA>                                   :password  ,priv-imap-gmail1-password
SA>                                   :port 993
SA>                                   :stream ssl
SA>                                   :authentication login
SA>                             )
SA> )

mail-source.el and nnimap.el get authentication info in very different
ways currently.  In fact I'm in the process of writing auth-source.el
(it's about 50% finished now) which will unite mail-source.el,
nnimap.el, SMTP, and all the other Gnus authentication hooks into one
sensible structure.  You can look at the auth-source.el code to see what I
mean.  Currently it doesn't support multiple accounts per server, so
it's good you brought up that use case.  I've added the necessary code
to auth-source.el, and will add server support to netrc.el when
we agree on how that should look in ~/.authinfo..

Ted