Authinfo in v5.8.7 (was Re: Gnus v5.8.7 is released)

[Chris Brierley <brierley@pobox.com>]

On 2000-07-03, Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:
> 
> Nnimap used to have a hack that allowed you to specify the
> virtual server name in .authinfo files, and nnimap tried to look
> up this name ("" in your case) -- and received the default entry
> back...
> 
> I've now removed the hack from cvs.

Ouch!  Is that necessary?  I for one use that hack quite a bit.  I
use SSH to port forward tunnels to my various IMAP servers.  Thus,
localhost:1500 goes to one IMAP server, localhost:1600 goes to
another.  Since both machine names in this case are "localhost", I
have to use nnimap's virtual server name in my .authinfo file to
distinguish between the two.

Having said that, the nnimap hack doesn't appear to be working, even in
released 5.8.7.  I've got the following lines in my .authinfo:

,-----
| machine personal login brierley
| machine work login brierley
| machine client login brierley
`-----

And machines "personal" and "work" now ask me for my username.
Machine "client" does not.  The only difference that I can see is
that personal and work are in gnus-secondary-select-methods while
client is a foreign server.