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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Joseph Gay <gilleylen@gmail.com>
Cc: <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: auth-source.el API change: Gnus and Emacs sync
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:06:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjvuw7ij.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwruuv9h.fsf@geneva.hpsy.me> (Joseph Gay's message of "Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:16:42 -0600")

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:16:42 -0600 Joseph Gay <gilleylen@gmail.com> wrote: 

JG> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
TZ> Yes.  The default keys which all backends should respect are :host,
TZ> :port, and :user.  The netrc backend maps them to machine or host; port
TZ> or protocol; user or login or account respectively.  So for example:

JG> [...]

TZ> The Secrets API backend works similarly.

JG> That sounds great. I believe it will allow me to clear up an ugly hack
JG> in my own config wherein I access IMAP on two separate accounts from the
JG> same machine.

Yeah.  Say you have two nnimap servers, A and B.  Then your authinfo
lines will be

machine A login you password ???
machine B login you password ???

and nnimap will automatically use the nnimap server name in addition to
the actual host name.

Ted



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-11 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-10 22:37 Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-11  4:13 ` Joseph Gay
2011-02-11 14:12   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-11 21:16     ` Joseph Gay
2011-02-11 22:06       ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-02-11  8:21 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-11 13:54   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-11 16:37     ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-11 17:28       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-12 13:49         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-12 14:05           ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-12 18:00             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-11 17:30       ` tramp-imap removal? (was: auth-source.el API change: Gnus and Emacs sync) Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-11 18:15         ` tramp-imap removal? Robert Pluim
2011-02-12 13:55         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-12 18:56           ` Steinar Bang
2011-02-14 15:21             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-13 13:00           ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-13 13:27             ` imap-hash.el and imap.el removed (was: tramp-imap removal?) Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-12 13:48 ` auth-source.el API change: Gnus and Emacs sync Ted Zlatanov

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