>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

    Kai> George McNinch <McNinch.1@nd.edu> writes:
    >> Installing 5.8.7 seems to have made nnimap no longer look at my
    >> ~/.authinfo file. I didn't change any configuration -- it
    >> worked with 5.8.4, and now doesn't; I'm now prompted each time
    >> for username and password.

    Kai> Hm.  Does it help to frob the server name in ~/.authinfo?
    Kai> Suppose you have (nnimap "foo" (nnimap-address "bar") ...) as
    Kai> server definition, what happens if you put `machine foo' in
    Kai> there?  `machine bar'?  If you have (nnimap ""
    Kai> (nnimap-address "bar")...), you can only use `machine bar',
    Kai> of course.

Um. I have the latter situation i.e.  I have specified

(nnimap "" (nnimap-address "bar"))

(and the .authinfo entry is indeed 'machine bar').

I got nowhere by first trying to add 'foo' to the server definition;
any tips on how to proceed? (I guess 'foo' should be a virtual server
name?  I wasn't able to access any of the imap mailboxes when I added
the virtual server name to my imap server command).