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Re: Howto handle @ in pop3-account-username



On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:50:27AM +0200, you (Michael Schwipps) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> howto handle multiple pop3-Accounts in account-hooks?
> So far it's easy and well documented.
> 
> I have two accounts on the provider's pop-server with @ in pop3-username.
> Howto do that?
> 
> This following sample, muttrc-smip, doesn't run
> 
> | account-hook "pop://me@xxxxxxxxxxxx@pop\.provider\.com" 'set 
> pop_user="me@xxxxxxxxxxxx"; set pop_pass="secret"'
> | account-hook "pop://me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@pop\.provider\.com" 'set 
> pop_user="me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"; set pop_pass="secret"'
> | 
> | mailboxes pop://me@xxxxxxxxxxxx@pop\.provider\.com \
> |     pop://me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@pop\.provider\.com
> 
> I assume the second @ is the problem.

Hi Michael,

maybe I missunderstand your question ;-) for me, it seems that your username 
isn't actually contaning any @.
please try the following:
set pop_user="me" and do not add the @domain -- the @domain... part should not 
be part of the username.

cheers,
Markus

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