Re: mutt new mail notification
Sorry, I did not pay attention and pressed 'r' instead of 'L'...
----- Forwarded message from Christoph Ludwig <ludwig@xxxxxxxxxxx> -----
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:29:03 +0200
From: Christoph Ludwig <ludwig@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: mutt new mail notification
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Hi,
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:34:40PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> 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).
I tried it - mutt complains that it cannot find the host "COMPANY".
> > 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).
Thanks, I will give the account hooks a try.
Regards
Christoph
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