Re: IMAP behaving strange

[Marvin]

On May 13, 5:49 pm, Richard Riley <rileyrg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Marvin <marvin...@gmail.com> 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