Re: mutt new mail notification

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tuesday, June  9 at 06:51 PM, quoth Christoph Ludwig:
> I am in a similar situation as Chris: I need to monitor several IMAP 
> mailboxes, some of them on Exchange server. I'd therefore need to 
> provide a list of imaps-URLs to the mailboxes command. So far the 
> manual is clear.
>
> However, I have somewhat "strange" usernames. For instance, on one server in 
> the Windows domain "COMPANY" I have an account "christoph" that's associated 
> with the mailbox "christoph.ludwig". Exchange expects me therefore to log on 
> with the IMAP username "COMPANY/christoph/christoph.ludwig".
>
> Due to the '/', I cannot put the username into the imaps-URL.

Have you tested that, or are you assuming that? I'm asking because I 
*think* mutt takes everything up to either a semicolon or the last @ 
symbol as the username. For example, I put my username in as 
user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@imap.memoryhole.net without trouble. Granted, my 
username doesn't have slashes in it, but I don't see why the slashes 
would cause trouble (other than maybe general slash and period bugs).

> That's no problem as long as I want to check only one IMAP server 
> with such a username as I then simply set imap_user accordingly and 
> state the "simple" usernames explicitly as part of the imaps-URL on 
> the remaining accounts. It is not obvious (to me), though, how to 
> deal with several IMAP accounts that have such usernames.

Well, the other way to do it with mutt is to use account-hooks. For 
example:

     account-hook imap://exchange.server 'set 
imap_user=COMPANY/christoph/christoph.ludwig'
     mailboxes imap://exchange.server/INBOX imap://exchange.server/from_boss

For details, check out the manual's description of "account-hook" 
(keep in mind that account-hooks trigger at unexpected times, so you 
don't want to do anything in them that doesn't have to do with 
contacting that account).


~Kyle
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