On May 13, 5:49 pm, Richard Riley <[email protected]> wrote: > Marvin <[email protected]> writes: > > Hi there, > > > I setup Gnus to read IMAP as follows > > (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "mail" > > (nnimap-address "imap.ece.rochester.edu") > > (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "mail/*" > > "Mail/*" "INBOX.*")) > > > )) > > > Which prompt me for my username and password, as I expected; however, > > when I type ^ to view the mailboxes I am prompted for username and > > passwd again (creating two instances) is this normal or am I doing > > something silly ? > > > thanks > > MMD > > Consider using .authinfo > > e.g > > ,---- > | gnus-select-method '(nnimap "mymail" > | (nnimap-stream ssl) > | (nnimap-address "imap.myhost.net") > | (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo") > | (nnir-search-engine imap)) > `---- > > And .authinfo is documented in the info file, but of the form: > > ,---- > | machine imap.myhost.net login ++++++ password ********** > `----
Thanks it works like a charm cheers MMD _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
