Reading from IMAP folders with '.' in name

Kevin J. McCarthy kevin at 8t8.us
Sun May 15 19:43:45 UTC 2022


On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 03:18:44PM -0400, Jason Franklin wrote:
>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?

Try putting:
   set imap_delim_chars = '/'
   set sidebar_delim_chars = '/'
in your muttrc and see if it helps.

By default, Mutt treats both '/' and '.' as folder separator characters, 
and that may be causing the issue.

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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