Hi, On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:15:43AM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 June 2009 at 13:32, Christoph Ludwig wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 05:47:09PM -0400, Paul Hoffman wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 06:51:15PM +0200, Christoph Ludwig wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:15:04AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: [...] > > > > 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. 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. > > > > > > What happens if you URL-encode the user name? > > > > > > imaps://company%2fchristoph%2fchristoph.lud...@example.com > > > > mutt still complains that it cannot find host "COMPANY". > > My vague recollection is that windows usernames are separated by > backslashes. How about > > imaps://company\\christoph\\christoph.lud...@example.com/
great, that works! I was not aware that Exchange accepts both forward and backward slashes as separators. The other working solution is to set account-hook as suggested by Kyle. However, that triggered two further questions: 1) Is there a way to define custom mailbox shortcuts so I don't have to type in the full imaps URL every time I switch to a folder on the company server? The only workaround I see after reading section 4.7 of the manual is to define a number of aliases with fake addresses and make the folders on the company server the default save folder for these aliases. However, this seems a crude hack to me. 2) mutt checks for mail in the company mailbox only after I logged into the mailbox at least once and therefore entered my password. Is there a way to make mutt request the passwords for all accounts referenced in the mailboxes list at program start? I don't want to put the passwords in a configuration file. Regards Christoph
