imap-fetch-mail not working properly
I am back to using Mutt after a bit of a hiatus (mostly because the e-mail at work was locked down to MAPI only). I have installed mutt 1.5.20 on my Mac from Macports. I have configured my ^ key to imap-fetch-mail using a keybinding command in my muttrc but it doesn't work. The only way I can refresh my IMAP mail is to change mailboxes and return to my inbox. What am I doing wrong? It's very inconvenient to have to change mailboxes just to refresh. TIA. -- Michael
Re: Mutt and multiple imap accounts
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 03:18:14PM +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote: > On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:10:18 +0100, Chuck Smith > wrote: > > > >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. I agree but the added benefit of offlineimap is that first of all you will have a local copy of all your mail. Redunancy is always a good idea. Secondly, you will not have any of the normal network delays. Everything is stored locally, send with msmtp, and synced with the remote server via a cron job. I personally love it. I know this is not what you had it mind, but create a new profile and just give it a whirl. -- Chuck Smith
Re: Mutt and multiple imap accounts
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:10:18 +0100, Chuck Smith 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 "' 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 "' 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
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 > "' > > 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 > "' > > 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
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 "' 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 "' 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
More problems with umlauts *sigh*
For some reason although when I send emails containing certain umlauted characters everything looks fine to me (i.e., in my editor), the recipient sometimes (or possibly always, I only know because one person mentioned it) doesn't see those characters correctly. They report that in emails containing umlauted character (upper or lower case), the characters appear to be replaced by spaces. If I send *myself* an email containing upper case an umlauted A, O, or U then when I receive it, I see garbage (a patterned "box" followed by something like "~D") in mutt where the character should be, but if I look at the email via webmail it looks fine. Lower case umlauted characters look fine in all cases, so this is a little different to others' experience when reading my emails. If I open the mailbox in my editor, the affected characters are shown as, for example: \304 \344 (i.e. a backslash followed by a number - some character encoding?) I notice that the Content-Type header contains: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Should/could that be correct? I have the following environment variables set: $ env | grep -E "(LANG|LC_)" LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 and within mutt I can see that the charset variable is set to UTF-8 - ':set &charset ?charset' displays 'charset="utf-8"'. similarly, 'send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:iso-8859-2:utf-8"' FWIW - $ mutt -v Mutt 1.4.2.2i (2006-07-14) Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others. [...] System: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) (i686) [using ncurses 5.5] Compile options: -DOMAIN -DEBUG -HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID -USE_DOTLOCK -DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK +USE_POP +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS +USE_SSL -USE_SASL +HAVE_REGCOMP +USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +HAVE_PGP +BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS +LOCALES_HACK -HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID -HAVE_GETADDRINFO -ISPELL SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail" PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/etc" EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" -MIXMASTER (i.e. it is the official Cygwin package; no, I don't know why that hasn't been upgraded to the official stable version since 2007)
