Re: Mutt and multiple imap accounts
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 02:57:41PM +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote: Hey, I'm having some difficulties with mutt and multiple imaps; I've been trying to set it up for my private mail and my uni mail, but I can't seem to get it to work. I've been following two entries from the wiki (mainly) this (http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttGuide/UseIMAP) and this (http://wiki.mutt.org/?UserStory/GmailMultiIMAP), if I purely follow the first link, then mutt responds with there being no maildir. If I purely follow the second link then it recognizes the maildir, but it shows that there are no mailboxes. A finesse to this is that my uni mail has a different ending from the imap server (the other is a gmail account). Could someone help me point out the flaws in my configuration? # Base hook to reset account variables to known state before activating new ones account-hook . 'unset preconnect imap_user imap_pass imap_authenticators; set ssl_starttls=ask-yes' account-hook imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/ 'set imap_user=Gmail-user imap_pass=Pass' folder-hook imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/ 'set folder=imaps://imap.gmail.com/INBOX record=+Sent from=My Name gmail-u...@gmail.com' account-hook imaps://uni-imap-server.com/ 'set imap_user=Uni-user imap_pass=Pass2' folder-hook imaps://uni-imap-server.com/ 'set folder=imaps://uni-imap-server.com/INBOX record=+Sent from=My Name uni-m...@uni-mail-address.com' If I add a folder and a spoolfile line (independent of the hooks) then this setup works, but would I need to set a spoolfile and a folder for both accounts? I think I tried it, but I'm not quite certain. The folder and spoolfile you set would be your defaults that get open when you start mutt. You only need to set these for one of your accounts. A few days back I posted in this mailing list my configuration to handle multiple Gmail accounts. Search the archives for a subject like Simple Mutt with Eee PC 701. You may find it useful. Any help would be appreciated :-) -- Zeerak -- regards, Horacio Sanson
Re: Mutt and multiple imap accounts
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 09:42:19AM +0900, Horacio Sanson wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 02:57:41PM +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote: Hey, I'm having some difficulties with mutt and multiple imaps; I've been trying to set it up for my private mail and my uni mail, but I can't seem to get it to work. I've been following two entries from the wiki (mainly) this (http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttGuide/UseIMAP) and this (http://wiki.mutt.org/?UserStory/GmailMultiIMAP), if I purely follow the first link, then mutt responds with there being no maildir. If I purely follow the second link then it recognizes the maildir, but it shows that there are no mailboxes. A finesse to this is that my uni mail has a different ending from the imap server (the other is a gmail account). Could someone help me point out the flaws in my configuration? # Base hook to reset account variables to known state before activating new ones account-hook . 'unset preconnect imap_user imap_pass imap_authenticators; set ssl_starttls=ask-yes' account-hook imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/ 'set imap_user=Gmail-user imap_pass=Pass' folder-hook imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/ 'set folder=imaps://imap.gmail.com/INBOX record=+Sent from=My Name gmail-u...@gmail.com' account-hook imaps://uni-imap-server.com/ 'set imap_user=Uni-user imap_pass=Pass2' folder-hook imaps://uni-imap-server.com/ 'set folder=imaps://uni-imap-server.com/INBOX record=+Sent from=My Name uni-m...@uni-mail-address.com' If I add a folder and a spoolfile line (independent of the hooks) then this setup works, but would I need to set a spoolfile and a folder for both accounts? I think I tried it, but I'm not quite certain. The folder and spoolfile you set would be your defaults that get open when you start mutt. You only need to set these for one of your accounts. A few days back I posted in this mailing list my configuration to handle multiple Gmail accounts. Search the archives for a subject like Simple Mutt with Eee PC 701. You may find it useful. Any help would be appreciated :-) -- Zeerak -- regards, Horacio Sanson Ah yes, I found it :-) And I've gotten it working now :-) I also created a blog to document how to set it up, and anything else useful I needed. :-) -- Zeerak Waseem pgpwNeNXoRaUV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Mutt and multiple imap accounts
Hey, I'm having some difficulties with mutt and multiple imaps; I've been trying to set it up for my private mail and my uni mail, but I can't seem to get it to work. I've been following two entries from the wiki (mainly) this (http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttGuide/UseIMAP) and this (http://wiki.mutt.org/?UserStory/GmailMultiIMAP), if I purely follow the first link, then mutt responds with there being no maildir. If I purely follow the second link then it recognizes the maildir, but it shows that there are no mailboxes. A finesse to this is that my uni mail has a different ending from the imap server (the other is a gmail account). Could someone help me point out the flaws in my configuration? # Base hook to reset account variables to known state before activating new ones account-hook . 'unset preconnect imap_user imap_pass imap_authenticators; set ssl_starttls=ask-yes' account-hook imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/ 'set imap_user=Gmail-user imap_pass=Pass' folder-hook imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/ 'set folder=imaps://imap.gmail.com/INBOX record=+Sent from=My Name gmail-u...@gmail.com' account-hook imaps://uni-imap-server.com/ 'set imap_user=Uni-user imap_pass=Pass2' folder-hook imaps://uni-imap-server.com/ 'set folder=imaps://uni-imap-server.com/INBOX record=+Sent from=My Name uni-m...@uni-mail-address.com' If I add a folder and a spoolfile line (independent of the hooks) then this setup works, but would I need to set a spoolfile and a folder for both accounts? I think I tried it, but I'm not quite certain. Any help would be appreciated :-) -- Zeerak
Re: Mutt and multiple imap accounts
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 02:57:41PM +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote: Hey, I'm having some difficulties with mutt and multiple imaps; I've been trying to set it up for my private mail and my uni mail, but I can't seem to get it to work. I've been following two entries from the wiki (mainly) this (http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttGuide/UseIMAP) and this (http://wiki.mutt.org/?UserStory/GmailMultiIMAP), if I purely follow the first link, then mutt responds with there being no maildir. If I purely follow the second link then it recognizes the maildir, but it shows that there are no mailboxes. A finesse to this is that my uni mail has a different ending from the imap server (the other is a gmail account). Could someone help me point out the flaws in my configuration? # Base hook to reset account variables to known state before activating new ones account-hook . 'unset preconnect imap_user imap_pass imap_authenticators; set ssl_starttls=ask-yes' account-hook imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/ 'set imap_user=Gmail-user imap_pass=Pass' folder-hook imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/ 'set folder=imaps://imap.gmail.com/INBOX record=+Sent from=My Name gmail-u...@gmail.com' account-hook imaps://uni-imap-server.com/ 'set imap_user=Uni-user imap_pass=Pass2' folder-hook imaps://uni-imap-server.com/ 'set folder=imaps://uni-imap-server.com/INBOX record=+Sent from=My Name uni-m...@uni-mail-address.com' If I add a folder and a spoolfile line (independent of the hooks) then this setup works, but would I need to set a spoolfile and a folder for both accounts? I think I tried it, but I'm not quite certain. Any help would be appreciated :-) Have you tried Offlineimap? I am using it with great success. Read here: http://miggysmith.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/gmail1/ -- Chuck Smith -- Zeerak
Re: Mutt and multiple imap accounts
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:10:18 +0100, Chuck Smith chuck.smit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 02:57:41PM +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote: Hey, I'm having some difficulties with mutt and multiple imaps; I've been trying to set it up for my private mail and my uni mail, but I can't seem to get it to work. I've been following two entries from the wiki (mainly) this (http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttGuide/UseIMAP) and this (http://wiki.mutt.org/?UserStory/GmailMultiIMAP), if I purely follow the first link, then mutt responds with there being no maildir. If I purely follow the second link then it recognizes the maildir, but it shows that there are no mailboxes. A finesse to this is that my uni mail has a different ending from the imap server (the other is a gmail account). Could someone help me point out the flaws in my configuration? # Base hook to reset account variables to known state before activating new ones account-hook . 'unset preconnect imap_user imap_pass imap_authenticators; set ssl_starttls=ask-yes' account-hook imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/ 'set imap_user=Gmail-user imap_pass=Pass' folder-hook imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/ 'set folder=imaps://imap.gmail.com/INBOX record=+Sent from=My Name gmail-u...@gmail.com' account-hook imaps://uni-imap-server.com/ 'set imap_user=Uni-user imap_pass=Pass2' folder-hook imaps://uni-imap-server.com/ 'set folder=imaps://uni-imap-server.com/INBOX record=+Sent from=My Name uni-m...@uni-mail-address.com' If I add a folder and a spoolfile line (independent of the hooks) then this setup works, but would I need to set a spoolfile and a folder for both accounts? I think I tried it, but I'm not quite certain. Any help would be appreciated :-) Have you tried Offlineimap? I am using it with great success. Read here: http://miggysmith.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/gmail1/ -- Chuck Smith -- Zeerak I'll bear it in mind, but one of the reasons I went with regular imap, is that mutt can handle it without any need for other tools. So I'll bear the offline imap in mind, but if it's possible to get it working with regular imap then that really would be for the best. -- Zeerak
