From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: nnimap-user setting? Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:14:17 -0300 Message-ID: References: <87zkns98l8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87y63bdzny.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302966870 15841 80.91.229.12 (16 Apr 2011 15:14:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:14:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 16 17:14:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QB7Cb-00031s-S3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:14:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37745 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QB7Cb-00037p-1T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:14:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36572) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QB7CY-00037i-61 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:14:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QB7CX-00052v-C4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:14:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:50296) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QB7CX-00052q-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:14:21 -0400 Original-Received: from 213-159-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.159.213]:51144 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QB7CW-0000Ws-TP; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:14:21 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6D066662FC; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:14:17 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: <87y63bdzny.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:31:45 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138518 Archived-At: SM> Doesn't sound right: what if you have several accounts on the same SM> IMAP server? auto-info needs to know the username in order to find the SM> right password. > In Gnus, you'd set up multiple secondary servers with the same machine > address and each one has its own nnimap-user. That's one way to do it, but not the only way. The user may only want one of the accounts in his list of secondary servers. > But what bugged you is the auth-source prompting for the user name, right? Partly, but I don't understand what annoys you in the patch I sent. Stefan