several users for a single imap server

several users for a single imap server

[Alan Schmitt]

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Hello,

I'm trying to rationalize my mail setup, where gnus accesses two local
maildir hierarchies served by dovecot.

Right now, I'm using two dovecot instances, which I want to simplify
to a single instance with two different users.

My question is: how can I configure gnus to access the same server
with two different users? I could not find where to specify the user
in the select methods, and if I put two users in my authinfo, I don't
know how to tell gnus to use one or the other.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,

Alan

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Re: several users for a single imap server

[Adam Sjøgren]

Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

> My question is: how can I configure gnus to access the same server
> with two different users? I could not find where to specify the user
> in the select methods, and if I put two users in my authinfo, I don't
> know how to tell gnus to use one or the other.

The "machine" keyword in the .authinfo file can be a little misleading.

Gnus uses it to match the name of the server in the configuration, not
to find the hostname to connect to.

So you can just configure two entries in your secondary select methods
to refer to different lines in your .authinfo.

I.e. you can have something like this in your .gnus:

  (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
    '((nnimap "onename"   (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com"))
      (nnimap "another"   (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com"))))

And something like this in your .authinfo:

  machine onename login youremail@gmail.com password PASS1 port imap
  machine another login otheremal@gmail.com password PASS2 port imap


  Best regards,

    Adam

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Re: several users for a single imap server

[Alan Schmitt]

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On 2014-09-26 15:09, asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:
>
>> My question is: how can I configure gnus to access the same server
>> with two different users? I could not find where to specify the user
>> in the select methods, and if I put two users in my authinfo, I don't
>> know how to tell gnus to use one or the other.
>
> The "machine" keyword in the .authinfo file can be a little misleading.
>
> Gnus uses it to match the name of the server in the configuration, not
> to find the hostname to connect to.

Thank you, this is exactly what I was missing!

Alan

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