Reading from IMAP folders with '.' in name

Jason Franklin jason at oneway.dev
Sun May 15 19:18:44 UTC 2022


Greetings:

I am a new mutt user. I like it so far!

One hurdle is giving me a real headache at the moment.

My mail provider uses IMAP, and I use aliases with folders and routing
rules to allow for multiple email addresses under one account.

My folder layout is like this...

  Inbox/
  |-- jason at oneway.dev/
  |-- one at example.org/
  `-- two at example.org/

In the mutt sidebar (which I love!), it looks like this...

  INBOX
  INBOX/jason at oneway/dev
  INBOX/one at example/org
  INBOX/two at example/org

When I attempt to open one of the subfolders with 'c' and then by
selecting the folder, mutt tells me that the mailbox does not exist and
stops there.

Renaming the folders to something without '.' or '@' characters allows
me to access them just fine. Thus, I think the folder name has something
to do with it.

How might I allow for folder names that match a normal email address
including the '.' and '@' characters?

This will at least get me to where I can read all of my mail easily.

Many thanks in advance!

-- 
Jason Franklin


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