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
