Re: Authinfo and server name (was: Gnus v5.8.7 is released)

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net> writes:

> Simon> Nnimap used to have a hack that allowed you to specify the
> Simon> virtual server name in .authinfo files, and nnimap tried to
> Simon> look up this name ("" in your case) -- and received the default
> Simon> entry back...
> Simon>
> Simon> I've now removed the hack from cvs.
> 
> Ouch!  That seems a bit harsh - when I upgrade, nnimap will suddenly
> stop working and I won't know why.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to just change the order to try the hostname
> first?

If we did that and a user had 1) no entry for the hostname in authinfo
and 2) had a default entry in authinfo; he would get the default entry
instead and couldn't figure out why.

Perhaps the gnus-netrc-machine need even more functionality, so it
doesn't fall back on the "default" entry?  Then nnimap could try the
hostname first, without default fallback, and then try the server
name, with default fallback.