On 2011-05-28, Jamie Paul Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 02:18:28AM -0400, Andrew Hills wrote: >> I'm using mutt with GMail now, and I have a label "foo.bar". When I >> attempt to change to it with c (typing it, tabbing it out, or >> selecting it from the list), I get an error that "foo/bar" can't be >> found. If I try to escape the period with a backslash, I get an error >> that "foo\/bar" can't be found. How can I access folders with the >> period symbol in the name? > > I think the problem is that your imap server uses "." as a > mailbox separator
Nope, Gmail allows '.' in IMAP mailbox names. The problem is that Mutt thinks '.' is a separator. This will fix it: set imap_delim_chars="/" > so using a period in the name of a mailbox is going to confuse > things. It confuses Mutt, because by default it consideres '.' a path delimiter. Gmail's IMAP server is fine with it. I think that mutt's default is left over from the Courier IMAP server which didn't seem capable of using a real tree-structured filesystem and instead faked it's own (something I've always found baffling). > Have a read through man muttrc, there are two settings which come to > mind: $imap_delim_chars That's the one. :) > and $mask. Do read it though because I don't use imap with mutt so I > am not certain.
