new details on Suse- Microsoft deal

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
>>
>>My preferred mailer is mutt which I find very efficient, and
>>supports threading nicely.
>>
>I was just now browsing the mutt documentation. A lot, badly
>organized. Do you use mutt to access an IMAP server? If so, how do you
>tell mutt where your server is? (I want to use a nonstandard port in
>127.0.0.1, where I have a ssh tunnel to my office box, where dovecot
>serves only the localhost.) I know how to do this with pine, but as for
>mutt...The file
>file:///usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.13-r1/advancedusage.html#imap
>says: "If you want to access another mail folder at the IMAP server, you
>should use imap://imapserver/path/to/folder (...)". I would understand
>this kind of syntax if mutt were a browser... What do they mean by
>"use"?!

I generally use mutt directly on Maildir folders, and use IMAP
primarily to test other's IMAP servers.  The command to do this
is ``c'' (change folder), and the format is ``{servername}folder''

The following examples assume courier-imap where everything other
than shared folders are under INBOX.  UW-IMAP allows access to
any file the user has access to, which some consider a security
problem.

# the default folder (will try TLS for secure connections)
{imap.example.com}INBOX

# Access a subfolder.
{imap.example.com}INBOX.subfolder

# access a subfolder of a folder
{imap.example.com}INBOX.folder.subfolder

Bill
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