Re: second(ary) imap server

[Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net>]

0> In article <m3g0gdy5ck.fsf@mantuzo.chapulin.de>,
0> Andreas Muck <URL:mailto:ml@chapulin.de> ("Andreas") wrote:

Andreas> Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net> writes:

>> Well change the entry with a DNS name to two entries with the
>> nnimap names, then.  Is is so difficult?

Andreas> No. But it doesn't WORK with the nnimap name.  I tried it
Andreas> before posting of course.

It's supposed to work; here's the code in nnimap.el
(nnimap-open-connection):

> (and (fboundp 'gnus-parse-netrc)
>            (setq list (gnus-parse-netrc nnimap-authinfo-file)
>                  alist (or (and (gnus-netrc-get
>                                  (gnus-netrc-machine list server) "machine")
>                                 (gnus-netrc-machine list server))
>                            (gnus-netrc-machine list nnimap-address))
>                  user (gnus-netrc-get alist "login")
>                  passwd (gnus-netrc-get alist "password")))

If you single-step this function with edebug, you should find what's
going wrong.  Ensure that `server' is the name you've written in the
file.