Re: mutt new mail notification
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 06:51:15PM +0200, Christoph Ludwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:15:04AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> > On Tuesday, June 9 at 02:28 PM, quoth Chris:
> > > I'm using mutt v1.5.19 to check mails in MS Exchange IMAP folders. Is
> > > there any way I could get mutt to notify me of new mails on arrival
> > > on various IMAP folders?
> >
> > Read the manual, look for the command "mailboxes".
>
> 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. 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.
What happens if you URL-encode the user name?
imaps://COMPANY%2Fchristoph%2Fchristoph.ludwig@xxxxxxxxxxx
Paul.
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