Re: IMAP user name with '@' symbol

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

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?

OK, apologies for the whiny noise. I've worked this out now. I needed
to put my username in double quotes:

%INBOX:"me@domain.com"/login@imap.domain.com "inbox"

Can I submit a patch to the manual?
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