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Tony Lam <Tony.Lam@eng.sun.com> writes:

> | (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
> | 	     '(nnimap "imapserver"
             ^
> | 		      (nnimap-address "imapserver.eng.sun.com")
> | 		      (nnimap-list-pattern '("INBOX" ("Mail/nnimap/" . "*")))
                                           ^

You're quoting things twice here.  Remove the second '.  This explain
why `nnimap-list-pattern' doesn't work.

> | 		      (nnimap-username tonyl)

This variable doesn't exist.  Please read about .authinfo in the
manual.  This explain why `nnimap-username' doesn't work.

>   * they're both actually pointing to the same imap server, but I got
>     "server denied" for the 2nd entry (nnimap "" ...)

Weird. If you set `imap-log', and go to the server buffer `^' and
press `O' on the second entry, what's the content of the *imap-log*
buffer?