Re: Mailtool URL to an MS-exchange server

Dr R L Oswald writes:

> Mailtool is of great interest to me mainly to get a formatted listing of 
> folders & messages from IMAP mailboxes.
> 
> Unfortunately although I have built it OK on RH9, when connecting to our 
> Exchange servers IMAP address which is normally used by IMAP MUAs, it 
> fails with message "Name or service not known".
> 
> Now our exchange login names are in format abcd/efghi/<email-name> * so 
> a mailtool command would resemble:
> 
> mailtool -list imap://abcd/efghi/j.smith-8an/[email protected]
> 
> If I try & query with mailtool -list j.smith-8an/[email protected] it then 
> prompts for a password which of course fails because its an illegal 
> userid for our exchange server.
> 
> Has anyone managed to make mailtool work with an MS-exchange IMAP server 
> please ?

Try:  mailtool -list imap://abcd%2Fefghi%2Fj.smith-8an/[email protected]

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