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Re: mutt new mail notification



Hi,

* Kyle Wheeler wrote:

> 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).

Slahes cause trouble because mutt separates the user/pwd/hostname part
from the path.  Given:

imaps://localhost/username@hostname/INBOX

it's not clear that the username is supposed to be 'localhost/username'.

Rocco