Re: setup for imap server with many users

[Abramov Aleksey]

Gour <gour@atmarama.net> writes:

> Hello!
>
> I fetch mail from several imap accounts  with getmail and deliver to
> dovecot running on my localhost using maildrop.
>
> Now I'd like to configure Gnus to access this email which is stored in
> ~/dovecot/user1@domain1.com
> ~/dovecot/user2@domain2.com etc.
>
> Some parts from my gnus-init.el:
>
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>         '((nnimap "localhost-IMAP" 
>                   (nnimap-address "localhost")
>                   (nnimap-stream network)
>                   (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")
>                   (nnir-search-engine imap)) 
>
>
> but I've problem configuring gnus-parameters.
>
> Tried with something like:
>
> ("^nnimap\\+localhost-IMAP:user1@domain1.com.*"
>
> but cannot figure out the correct regex to select the above-mentioned
> virtual dovecot users?
>
> Moreover, authorization with ~/.authinfo does not work as well.
>
> Here is the entry in it:
>
> machine localhost login user1@domain1.com password somepasswd port 143
>
> I use Emacs/Gnus from Debain Wheezy (23.4.1)
>
> Any hint?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour

I do not recommend this scheme for you. It will be too slow, that you
will run away from Gnus after few months. 

I think It would be better to set Maildir backend in you delivery agent,
and then use it by Gnus. But the best decision (as I see it) is to set
`mail-sources' variable, and use `nnml' as your back-end.

,----[ C-h v mail-sources RET ]
| mail-sources is a variable defined in `mail-source.el'.
| Its value is
| [deleted]
|
| Original value was ((file))
| 
| 
| Documentation:
| Where the mail backends will look for incoming mail.
| This variable is a list of mail source specifiers.
| See Info node `(gnus)Mail Source Specifiers'.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
| version 23.1 of Emacs.
| 
| [back]
`----

-- 
Sincerely,
Abramov Aleksey.