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Re: Failing to login to IMAP folder. IMAP REFERRAL mesg



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On Tuesday, March 17 at 10:58 AM, quoth Noah Sheppard:
>> Mutt doesn't follow imap referrals; but it's relatively easy to 
>> simply update your muttrc to use the new location for your email. 
> I'm curious. Is there a specific reason why mutt doesn't follow 
> referrals, or does someone just need to write the code to do so?

Far as I know, someone just needs to write it.

This comes back to the paradigm that mutt was originally designed for: 
as a mailbox viewer. IMAP support is really more of a "strap on" 
feature, rather than a foundation upon which mutt bases its design.

 From mutt's IMAP readme file:

     IMAP in mutt should be considered beta quality. For the most part
     it works well, but it is still not quite as stable or as
     full-featured as some of the other drivers. I believe it is now
     acceptable for daily use (and that's how I use it now, currently
     against Cyrus 1.6.24 and previously against UW-IMAP 4.7 and 2000).

That was written back in 2001, and hasn't been updated since!

~Kyle
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