Re: IMAP user name with '@' symbol

[Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk>]

At Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:23:22 -0500,
Doug Johnson wrote:
> 
> At Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:08 +0000,
> Richard Lewis wrote:
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I'm just trying to add my non-local IMAP servers to my wl setup (I
> > currently use just local IMAP) and am playing the .folders file
> > guessing game -- badly.
> > 
> > My username for one of my IMAP servers is my email address, including
> > the '@' symbol. Any ideas if this works in wl? Currently I've got as
> > far as specifying the username with '%40' instead of '@' and that gets
> > me to the position of it reporting an authentication error.
> > 
> > With the @ included it thought that everything following it was the
> > name of the server. With the @ escaped ('\@') it just asks me if I
> > want to create the folder. (I'm not sure what this means, does it mean
> > that it's not parsing the folder definition as an IMAP folder?)
> > 
> > Also, putting exclamation marks at the ends of my folder definitions
> > seems to have the effect of causing them not to be parsed properly (I
> > think, it's quite hard to tell what's wrong with a .folers file).
> > 
> > Anyone else solved this problem?
> > -- 
> 
> Richard,
> 
> I have the '@' symbol in my username for one of my email accounts,
> double quotes work.
> 
> 	(setq elmo-imap4-default-user "name@domain.com")
> 
OK. I don't really understand what this elmo-imap4-default-user
variable is about. Why should I set it? What if I have four IMAP
accounts? Why should any of them be my elmo-imap4-default-user? Why
can't I just put the necessary folder definition in .folders?

I tried setting it and it didn't seem to make any difference. I tried
unsetting it and it broke my Emacs completely!
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