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Re: IMAP - two accounts on one server
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: IMAP - two accounts on one server |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:12:46 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Many years ago I set Gnus up to read mail from a server via IMAP and
> every thing has been working fine. I now want to add a second account
> on the same server[1].
>
> I have added a corresponding line to .authinfo, but there doesn't seem
> to be a variable I could add to the select method to indicate which
> account should be used.
>
> Currently I just don't see any extra folders from the second account and
> they do not appear when I try to subscribe to additional folder.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] To be honest, the accounts are not on the same server. However,
> the server address is the same in both cases. Behind the scenes some
> jiggery-pokery goes on to forward mail to a second server in the case of
> the second account.
You didn't mention adding the second server to
`gnus-secondary-select-methods' -- that's the key step. Have you done
that? Gnus won't know about the server until you put it there, and once
it does know, it can handle the ~/.authinfo step by itself.
E
- IMAP - two accounts on one server, Loris Bennett, 2016/09/21
- Message not available
- Re: IMAP - two accounts on one server, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/09/21
- Re: IMAP - two accounts on one server, Adam Sjøgren, 2016/09/21
- Message not available
- Re: IMAP - two accounts on one server, Loris Bennett, 2016/09/22
- Re: IMAP - two accounts on one server, Adam Sjøgren, 2016/09/22
- Message not available
- Re: IMAP - two accounts on one server, Loris Bennett, 2016/09/22
- Re: IMAP - two accounts on one server, Adam Sjøgren, 2016/09/22
- Re: IMAP - two accounts on one server, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/09/22
- Re: IMAP - two accounts on one server, Loris Bennett, 2016/09/22