Re: Failing to login to IMAP folder. IMAP REFERRAL mesg

[Asif Iqbal <vadud3@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, March 17 at 10:06 AM, quoth Asif Iqbal:
>> I have been accessing our microsoft exchange folder using IMAP. But
>> yesterday IT did a maintenance and now I cannot access it any more.
>
> Yike.
>
>>[REFERRAL imap://iqbala;AUTH=*@MX.EXAMPLE.COM/INBOX] There is no
>>replica for that mailbox
>
> Well, what that is is a "referral", as defined in RFC 2193 (written by
> a Microsoft employee). Mutt doesn't support mailbox referrals, as
> you've discovered.
>
> Now, it's possible that this is a result of an incorrect setup. It's
> generally only used when you have a *cluster* of mail servers, so
> unless the "maintenance" they performed was to install a new email
> cluster, this sort of error looks suspicious.
>
>>Any idea how to work around that?
>>
>>This is my muttrc (sanitized)
>>
>>set spoolfile=imap://example.com:143/INBOX
>>set folder=imap://example.com:143/
>>set record="=Sent Items"
>>set trash="=Deleted Items"
>>set postponed="=Drafts"
>>set mbox_type=Maildir
>>set imap_user=iqbala imap_pass=secret
>
> The other thing you can do is to simply *manually* handle the
> referral. Literally, what the Exchange server is telling you is that
> your personal mailbox can be accessed from that specific URL. So, to
> manually follow the redirect, do this:
>
>     set spoolfile=imap://iqbala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/INBOX

That was it! Awesome!

Thanks a lot Kyle!

>
> You may also have to update the value of $folder in a similar fashion.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> ~Kyle
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