character set issues

2015-01-07 Thread J. A. Landamore
I have mutt 1.5.21 installed on Ubuntu from the packages and it is mostly fine. It doesn't, however, connect to one of my mail providers because it is linked against TLS and not SSL. When I compile from source and link against SSL that problem is corrected but now I get an issue when displaying

Forcing closure of an IMAP connection

2013-02-22 Thread J. A. Landamore
I use mutt 1.5.20 to access my mail over IMAP held on several different servers. One of these servers was upgraded last year and now exhibits an issue whereby approximately 5 minutes after it was last accessed it hangs, but doesn't close, the connection to mutt. This hangs mutt for a couple of

Bcc oddity when set in muttrc

2012-02-10 Thread J. A. Landamore
I am experiencing an oddity when trying to set a Bcc in my .muttrc A segment of my .muttrc is -- send-hook . unmy_hdr From: Reply-To: Bcc: send-hook ~t Address1 'my_hdr From: John Landamore j...@mcs.le.ac.uk ' send-hook ~t Address1 'my_hdr Reply-To: j...@mcs.le.ac.uk' send-hook ~t Address1

mutt very slow with Exchange

2011-08-23 Thread J. A. Landamore
I get the feeling that mutt and Exchange interacting over IMAP aren't happy companions, am I correct? I have no local mail, all my mail access is over IMAP. I can use mutt to access my departmental (dovecote) mail server over IMAP and it is quick - downloads 3000+ headers in a second or so.