Re: mutt new mail notification
On Wednesday, 10 June 2009 at 13:32, Christoph Ludwig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 05:47:09PM -0400, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> > 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
>
> mutt still complains that it cannot find host "COMPANY".
My vague recollection is that windows usernames are separated by
backslashes. How about
imaps://COMPANY\\christoph\\christoph.ludwig@xxxxxxxxxxx/
(you may need to adjust the quoting a bit)