On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Kyle Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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;[email protected]/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://[email protected]/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 > - -- > I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked > for. > -- Michelangelo, in The Agony and the Ecstasy > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Thank you for using encryption! > > iEYEARECAAYFAkm/uCwACgkQBkIOoMqOI17OQwCgyGLcGMGSyxx+YVp+rfdMoE0H > VccAn09cy5tJb37KkfLK0hV5EjoYOPcd > =Pmtd > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
