Re: Suggestion: Describe in Gnus manuall on how to allow multiple IMAP accounts in same server

[Reiner Steib]

On Sun, Jan 28 2007, Tim X wrote:

> CHENG Gao <chenggao@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
>> I struggled for some time and found the solution.
>>
>> Say nnimap address is imap.mysite.com
>> Two accounts: one@mysite.com & other@mysite.com
>>
>> Two .authinfo files are needed to seperate the auth otherwise only the
>> first one with imap address imap.mysite.com is used for authentication
>> of both accounts.

>From an old posting[1] of mine:

,----[ ~/.authinfo ]
| machine fm  login some-long-login@fm.invalid
| machine bar login some-long-login@bar.invalid
`----

,----[ From `G e' buffers: ]
| ;;; Editing the select method for `nnimap+fm:INBOX'.
| (nnimap "fm"
|       (nnimap-address "fastmail.fm")
|       (nnimap-directory "~/Mail/var/nnimap/fm"))
|--------------------
| ;;; Editing the select method for `nnimap+bar:INBOX'.
| (nnimap "bar"
|       (nnimap-address "fastmail.fm")
|       (nnimap-directory "~/Mail/var/nnimap/bar"))
`----

> Can I suggest you write this information up and submit it as an
> addition/update to the gnus manual. It is only through users making
> submissions of this type we can hope to see a positive evolution of
> the gnus manual. 

ACK.

Bye, Reiner.

[1]
,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54779/focus=54780 ]
| From: Reiner Steib
| Subject: Re: IMAP: multiple accounts on same server
| Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
| Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:03:32 +0100
| Message-ID: <v9ad72zycr.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
`----

-- 
       ,,,
      (o o)
---ooO-(_)-Ooo---  |  PGP key available  |  http://rsteib.home.pages.de/