Re: [nnimap gmail] confused by phenomena

[asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> I guess I don't understand your reasoning here.  Is it not possible
> for gnus to find the correct line by the uid?

The what? "uid"?!

> Nothing partial involved but an exact match on uid (LOGNAME).

"LOGNAME"?

Your authinfo looks like this:

    machine imap.gmail.com login hputnam3@gmail.com password xxxxxxxx port imap
    machine imap.gmail.com login harrygp3@gmail.com password xxxxxxxx port imap

And your select methods are:

    (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")))

What I am saying is: Imagine you are a machine. How would you, from the
select method, find the correct authinfo line?

I would have guessed something like matching nnimap-address with machine
or perhaps nnimap-address+nnimap-port with machine+port, but I can't
imagine anyone implementing "Hey, let's see if the select method name is
a partial match of the authinfo login field"¹.

If you had named your select methods exactly the same as the authinfo
login fields, I could understand your guess (I wouldn't expect it to
work, but doing complete match is much more likely than partial).

I'm sorry I am sounding much more harsh than I mean to - I really do
agree that the documentation of this sucks (i.e. I couldn't find it),
but I also think that what you are expecting is... magic.

                                 o o o

Oh, and I think Eric S Fraga's suggestion is the obvious one to try,
i.e. try this:

    (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "a-nice-name"
                                      (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")))

    (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
                            '(nnimap "the-other"
                        (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")))

    machine a-nice-name login hputnam3@gmail.com password xxxxxxxx port imap
    machine the-other login harrygp3@gmail.com password xxxxxxxx port imap

Where you can replace "a-nice-name" and "the-other" with whatever you
want; I merely choose something different than "hputnam3" and "harrygp3"
to make it explicit that they don't have to have anything to do with
your email-addresses/the login fields.

Actually, I just tried that with two gmail-accounts, and it worked.


  Best regards,

    Adam


¹ Ok, maybe stranger things have happened, but still...

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