From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31772
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Subject: Re: Authinfo and server name (was: Gnus v5.8.7 is released)
Date: 13 Jul 2000 12:13:03 +0200
Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu
Message-ID: <iluem4yz6c0.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
References: <m2ituotkyk.fsf@yardbird.math.nd.edu>
	<2n1z1ccggx.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet>
	<s5t8zvjvk5w.fsf@goedel3.math.washington.edu>
	<ilur99b33xv.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
	<87aefndz2m.fsf_-_@delivery.cam.eu.citrix.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168144 15981 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:42:24 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:42:24 +0000 (UTC)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Return-Path: <owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu>
Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35])
	by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B328D051E
	for <jason@mailhost.sclp.com>; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:37:23 -0400 (EDT)
Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5])
	by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAC08292;
	Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:36:38 -0500 (CDT)
Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:35:22 -0500 (CDT)
Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139])
	by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17021
	for <ding@hpc.uh.edu>; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:35:12 -0500 (CDT)
Original-Received: from vic20.blipp.com (unknown [195.84.94.187])
	by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B9F4D051E
	for <ding@gnus.org>; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:35:40 -0400 (EDT)
Original-Received: from barbar.josefsson.org.d.dynas.se (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by vic20.blipp.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id e6DGZXM00474;
	Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:35:33 +0200
Original-To: Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: Toby Speight's message of "12 Jul 2000 18:43:13 +0100"
Mail-Copies-To: never
User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef)
Original-Lines: 23
Precedence: list
X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31772
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31772

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.