On 06/09/99 Dan Anderson uttered the following other thing:
> Hej: the documentation says cryptically that one should point to the
> imap mail box with a construction like: { imapserver}UserMailBox. Does
> this mean: {foobar.idiot.org}Mbox where Mbox is the user processesd
> Inbox /var/mail name. Will the construction
> {foobar.idiot.org}/var/mail/isafool also work? How come when I try to
> go there from a "c" no syntactical construct seems to be acceptable as
> a mailbox name?
>
> imap was configured on in my make. I would appreciate hearing about any
> sucessful methods of using imap.
The simplest way to set up for the major two imap servers are:
For UWash:
set folder='{imap.server.org}/home/login/Mail'
set spoolfile='{imap.server.org}INBOX'
or for Cyrus:
set folder='{imap.server.org}user.login.'
set spoolfile='{imap.server.org}INBOX'
If you don't know which version you are running, try:
telnet imap.server.org 143
You should see something like:
* OK imap.server.org Cyrus IMAP4 v1.5.14 server ready
or
* OK imap.server.org IMAP4rev1 v12.250 server ready
The second is UWash. It might be v11.xxx as well.
The stable version of mutt doesn't allow you to browse IMAP folder
lists. The development version does.
If you don't at least get some IMAP comment if you do {localhost} in the
change folder prompt, your mutt was probably not compiled with IMAP.
Try mutt -v and look for +USE_IMAP
Brandon
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