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Re: setup for imap server with many users
From: |
Gour |
Subject: |
Re: setup for imap server with many users |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:47:36 +0100 |
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:04:03 +0000
William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Then what does that have to do with Gnus? I'm confused.
Well, my mother & wife are going to use Claws, while I want to use
Gnus, but both clients access same Maildir 'pool' served by dovecot.
> It's a problem for Gnus because neither auth-source.el nor Gnus
> supports such configurations well, in terms of the semantics/design
> of the software.
Hmm...
> For auth-source it is expected that there is
> exactly one set of authentication secrets for each machine+protocol
> combination.
Now I really wonder what kind of setup I had in the past that simply
worked...
> For Gnus it is expected that each "select method" (i.e. server
> definition) designates a particular machine to connect to, or other
> backend; Gnus defers to auth-source for how to log in to that machine,
> including which username to use.
In my gnus-init.el I've:
(setq mail-sources nil)
> The fact that it works in Claws has nothing to do with getting it
> working in Gnus :) Hopefully that clarifies the problem.
Sure...I'm just confused a bit considering it's not very strange to have
several email accounts on different servers and accessing them *all*
within one mail client.
> b) As indicated in the answers to that poster, your maildir-syncing
> tool would be responsible for synchronizing flags to the IMAP server.
> Gnus does move stuff in maildir and set flags in a standard way,
> though.
In my case there is no maildir-syncing tool 'cause I want to keep all my
mail on my localhost machine to which I've physical access.
> I am using Emacs 24 on Debian Sid now but the performance with Emacs
> 23 connecting via nnimap to 2 remote IMAP servers was perfectly fine
> for me. Certainly not troublesome enough to justify the additional
> complexity of having a local IMAP server in between.
OK.
> The setup would have each of the several IMAP servers listed in
> `gnus-secondary-select-methods', with the authentication secrets for
> each in ~/.netrc or ~/.authinfo or ~/.authinfo.gpg or whatever you use
> as your auth-source file.
I'm trying to put together such setup by following setup described in
posts like:
http://www.cataclysmicmutation.com/2010/11/multiple-gmail-accounts-in-gnus/
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
> '((nnimap "imap.somewhere.edu"
> (nnimap-server-port 993)
> (nnimap-stream ssl))
> ((nnimap "imap.somewhereelse.com"
> ...))))
>
> etc. etc. etc.
I've the following in my init file:
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
'((nnimap "ggdasa"
(nnimap-address "localhost")
(nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "*"))
(nnimap-stream network)
(nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")
(nnir-search-engine imap))
(nntp "news.t-com.hr")))
and the following:
(setq gnus-parameters
;; ggdasa@gmail.com
("^nnimap\+ggdasa:*"
(posting-style
(name "Gour")
(address "ggdasa@gmail.com")
(signature-file "~/.getmail/ggdasa.signature"))
(gcc-self . "nnimap+ggdasa:ggdasa.Sent"))) ; ggdasa@gmail.com
but I always get (tried several variations of regexp):
byte-code: Error in ~/.emacs.d/gnus-init.el: ^nnimap+ggdasa:INBOX
and have no clue what is wrong and/or how to access IMAP folders of the
user 'ggdasa' having email in: ~/dovecot/ggdasa/Maildir/*
Any hint?
I've ~/.authinfo with the credentials to login to this account.
Sincerely,
Gour
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