Sorry, I did not pay attention and pressed 'r' instead of 'L'... ----- Forwarded message from Christoph Ludwig <lud...@fh-worms.de> -----
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:29:03 +0200 From: Christoph Ludwig <lud...@fh-worms.de> To: Kyle Wheeler <kyle-m...@memoryhole.net> Subject: Re: mutt new mail notification Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:34:40PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Tuesday, June 9 at 06:51 PM, quoth Christoph Ludwig: > > 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. > > Have you tested that, or are you assuming that? I'm asking because I > *think* mutt takes everything up to either a semicolon or the last @ > symbol as the username. For example, I put my username in as > u...@memoryhole.net@imap.memoryhole.net without trouble. Granted, my > username doesn't have slashes in it, but I don't see why the slashes > would cause trouble (other than maybe general slash and period bugs). I tried it - mutt complains that it cannot find the host "COMPANY". > > 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. > > Well, the other way to do it with mutt is to use account-hooks. For > example: > > account-hook imap://exchange.server 'set > imap_user=COMPANY/christoph/christoph.ludwig' > mailboxes imap://exchange.server/INBOX imap://exchange.server/from_boss > > For details, check out the manual's description of "account-hook" > (keep in mind that account-hooks trigger at unexpected times, so you > don't want to do anything in them that doesn't have to do with > contacting that account). Thanks, I will give the account hooks a try. Regards Christoph ----- End forwarded message ----- -- FH Worms - University of Applied Sciences Fachbereich Informatik / Telekommunikation Erenburgerstr. 19, 67549 Worms, Germany
