H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I must admit that this problem is actually on Hardy. I am trying it here > because: > 1) I imagine there are more users familiar with mutt here > 2) Users understand Debian based systems better here > > I hope people who do not want Ubuntu problems will spare me the flames > while keeping in mind that I did try this on Ubuntu list earlier today > (and, I faintly recall, a few months ago as well) with no reply. I hope > to have better luck here. > > Finally, if nothing else, this might be an interesting riddle for mutt > experts here. > > This is a bit strange thing for me. On a machine running Hardy, if I > start up mutt, it asks for my password twice. I have tried to find out > why that is so, but I am not sure what I am looking for. > > I check my mail from an imap server on our LAN in our univ. If I try to > check the mail from another machine (not running Hardy, mostly Redhat or > Mandrake), mutt asks for the password only once. So that rules out > .muttrc (/home is same in all machines, it's networked) and the imap > server and leaves the version of mutt. At least that is all I can guess. > > Any way to see what is causing this and how to solve this? The version > of mutt on Hardy is 1.5.17+20080114-1ubuntu.
I think that it is solved. I tried searching google with different terms now and after going through a few hoops settled on fixing the spool and folder variables. Earlier, I had the following two lines in my .muttrc set spoolfile=imap://imap.server.edu/INBOX. # Default spoolfile set folder=imap://imap.server.edu # Dir. that contains all mail files I just replaced imap: with imaps: and now mutt doesn't ask for the password the second time. Now if anyone can explain the reason behind this, it would icing on the cake. Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
