Re: Administering two imap accounts with gnus?

[Rob Weir]

On 19 Jul 2009, Hermann wrote:
> Hi, recently I've set up a mail account at the German provider
> web.de. This is not my main account, it is at my ISP 1und1.  I want to
> administer both accounts via nnimap in Gnus, and with 1und1 it is no
> problem.  However I can't manage to get web.de working: In ~/.authinfo
> there are written both servers and login data.  In ~/.gnus I let Gnus
> scan for new mails every 5 minutes.  When Gnus starts, there comes up
> a program named starttls, that is running twice, with "imap.1und1.de"
> and "imap.web.de".  Gnus connects correctly to the first one, but
> refuses connection to web.de "access denied". 

is your ~/.authinfo two lines, like this:

  machine imap.web.de login yourusername password yourpassword
  machine imap.1und1.de login yourotherusername password yourotherpassword

?

Can you try enabling imap-debug with (setq imap-debug t) in ~/.emacs,
and then have a look at your *imap-debug* buffer?

> 1. Is it possible to run two imap accounts on different servers with
> Gnus?

It has definitely worked for me in the past.

-- 
-rob