From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83230 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Still pounding nnimap and odd gmail behavior Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 18:04:23 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87r4guyavs.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87zjvmk4zh.fsf@newsguy.com> <877giqxhhf.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <8761y9v1t6.fsf@newsguy.com> <871u8wwumk.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369519560 27370 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2013 22:06:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 22:06:00 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31496@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 26 00:06:00 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 1UgMb8-0001q5-Tv for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 26 May 2013 00:05:59 +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 1UgMaT-0005Kf-I8; Sat, 25 May 2013 17:05:17 -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 1UgMaS-0005KQ-7A for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 25 May 2013 17:05:16 -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 1UgMaN-00063x-7O for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 25 May 2013 17:05:16 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UgMaL-0001KA-Sg for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 26 May 2013 00:05:09 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UgMaL-00015D-La for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 26 May 2013 00:05:09 +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 ; Sun, 26 May 2013 00:05:09 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 00:05:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 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: sha1:0sYkIZpb1W/WqspNk52WVOmIeVk= X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83230 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga writes: > 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. Yes indeed. I've been taking 'machine' to equate with host. Which it appears to do in my regular nntp server lines in .authinfo (Not in use now) like this: 'machine enews.newsguy.com login reader password xxxxxxx' And the corresponding gnus-select-method ;(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "enews.newsguy.com")) So, is that also incorrect in that case?