IMAP mailboxes in the sidebar

Felix Finch felix at crowfix.com
Mon Sep 17 01:56:41 UTC 2018


On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 06:11:43PM -0700, Felix Finch wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 07:22:55PM -0500, Arturo wrote:
> > On 09/16, Felix Finch wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 06:54:51PM -0500, Arturo wrote:
> > > > On 09/16, Felix Finch wrote:
> > > > > Ubuntu 18.04, Mutt 1.9.4.
> > > > > 
> > > > >     set sidebar_format="%B%?F? [%F]?%* %?N?%N/?%S"
> > > > >     set sidebar_new_mail_only=no
> > > > >     set sidebar_visible=yes
> > > > > 
> > > > > The sidebar shows only INBOX.  All other mailboxes are absent.  The same mutt sidebar is fine for local maildirs with a different muttrc.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I tried setting
> > > > > 
> > > > >     sidebar_whitelist =INBOX "=All Mail"
> > > > > 
> > > > > and that makes no difference.  I can change to that mailbox using "=All<tab>", so mutt knows it's a valid name, just can't see it in the sidebar.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I can only guess it's something to do with IMAP or Lookout (it's a Lookout IMAP server).
> > > > 
> > > > Does it work if you put the full path?
> > > > 
> > > > sidebar_whitelist imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/Devel imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/Family imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/[Gmail]/Starred 
> > > 
> > > I tried variations on that, no difference.  But if it can pick up =INBOX, why would it need the full path to others?
> > > 
> > 
> > Well I had a similar issue.  IIRC, INBOX was always there regardless for me, 
> > but I had to use the full path to get anything else to work. There was a
> > bug (since fixed) in NeoMutt where it wasnt' expanding = or + to
> > the full path.  Sounds like the same issue to me here in Mutt.
> > 
> > https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/485
> 
> I guess I'll try again, and differently :-)

I tried every combination I could think of, including putting my username and password in the URL.  Crickets.

I also tried eliminating the sidebar_whitelist command altogether.  Nomatter what I do, the sidebar shows "INBOX    10" and nothing else.

About the only reaction I got as deliberate syntax errors, such as "set sidebar_whitelist ...".  Otherwise it acts like that line is not even present.

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