From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: several users for a single imap server
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 20:40:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2sijez0n1.fsf@top.irisa.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mvuh6jv.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk>
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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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2014-09-26 11:13 Alan Schmitt
2014-09-26 13:09 ` Adam Sjøgren
2014-09-26 18:40 ` Alan Schmitt [this message]
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