[Imap-uw] invalid remote specification

2009-11-18 Thread Mike T

Hello,

I am trying to write a simple test program for the c-client library 
based off of mtest.c. When I am entering the mailbox string (eg. 
{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX) I keep receiving an error saying 
Can't open mailbox mailbox string: invalid remote specification. 
What could be the causes to thsi error?


Thanks.
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Re: [Imap-uw] invalid remote specification

2009-11-18 Thread Mark Crispin

The most common cause of this problem is failure to do
#include linkage.c
early in the main() function of the application (and prior to any c-client 
library calls).


The use of linkage.c is mandatory.  Some programmers omit the linkage 
entirely; others attempt to do the linkage manually.  Either way, they 
come to grief.


If you are certain that you have included linkage.c in your main() 
function, then the only other cause is that the IMAP software was built 
without SSL.


Finally: in your example, neither the :993, nor the /imap, nor the 
INBOX are necessary although they won't hurt.  /imap is the default, 
:993 is implied by /ssl for IMAP, and INBOX is also the default. 
Hence

{imap.gmail.com/ssl}
is exactly equivalent to
{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX
but is much less typing.

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Mike T wrote:
I am trying to write a simple test program for the c-client library based off 
of mtest.c. When I am entering the mailbox string (eg. 
{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX) I keep receiving an error saying Can't 
open mailbox mailbox string: invalid remote specification. What could be 
the causes to thsi error?


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