Re: [binc] bincimap and mutt..

Kyle Wheeler <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:56:48 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.binc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday, September 22 at 01:56 PM, quoth Wesley Spadola:
> In brief, I cannot seem to read messages on my mutt through its IMAP 
> facility.  It wants to browse the IMAP folders as a filesystem and not 
> look at them as mail folders.

What do you mean by this?

> Pressing <space> on these folders instead of <enter> does make mutt 
> print "Getting folder list" at the bottom, but mutt goes no further.

Get a protocol dump of this, so we can see what's going on.
http://lifewithbincimap.org/index.php/Main/ProtocolDumping

> When hitting enter on the folder, I am presented with a window with 
> [=foldername] at the top, but only an:
>
> IMAP                          ../
>
> line in every folder view.

This is an issue with Mutt's IMAP support. Basically, mutt relies on the 
CHILDREN extension, and Binc doesn't support it. But if you just use the 
space-bar instead of the return key, that should work (see above).

~Kyle
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