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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)