From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Still pounding nnimap and odd gmail behavior
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 17:59:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc66yb4i.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3mooqm5.fsf@enricoschumann.net>
Enrico Schumann <es@enricoschumann.net> writes:
> Yes. In my setup, I have several IMAP accounts set up like so:
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
> '(nnimap "IMAP1"
> (nnimap-address "xxxx.de")
> ;....))
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
> '(nnimap "IMAP2"
> (nnimap-address "xxxx.de")
> ;....))
>
> So the names "IMAP1", "IMAP2" &c. of these servers are not hostnames
> (the addresses are specified via 'nnimap-address').
>
> In the .authinfo file, the 'machine' field gets the name of the server,
> ie,
>
> machine IMAP1 login xxx ....
> machine IMAP2 login zzz ....
I'll admit I'm still a bit confused here. Isn't IMAP1 IMAP2 here
intended to mean the user ID?, in the secondary-select lines?
But in the .authinfo lines you call them 'servers' so are there
actually imap servers named after the user IDs?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-25 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-22 22:46 Harry Putnam
2013-05-23 7:08 ` Alberto Luaces
2013-05-23 20:56 ` Harry Putnam
2013-05-23 21:33 ` Joseph Mingrone
2013-05-24 5:26 ` Steinar Bang
2013-05-24 7:28 ` Alberto Luaces
2013-05-25 21:54 ` Harry Putnam
2013-05-23 7:50 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-05-23 21:11 ` Harry Putnam
2013-05-24 5:48 ` Steinar Bang
2013-05-24 6:10 ` Enrico Schumann
2013-05-25 21:59 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2013-05-27 7:22 ` Enrico Schumann
2013-06-06 14:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-05-24 10:16 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-05-25 22:04 ` Harry Putnam
2013-05-23 9:29 ` Enrico Schumann
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