[Alpine-info] how to specify _space_ in a remote folder name?

Dan Mahoney, System Admin danm at prime.gushi.org
Thu Apr 30 18:34:30 PDT 2009


On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Chris Shelton wrote:


> PK,

>

> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:25 PM, P Kapat <kap4lin at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> I am a regular user of alpine (2.00) on a linux machine. Recently, our

>> univ "outsourced" their mail server to Microsoft

>> (exchangelabs/live/outlook/...). So, all the mails now route through

>> outlook.com!!! Here is the question: the sever has folders, eg: "Sent

>> Items", "Junk E-Mail", "Deleted Items", .... which contains the

>> _space_ character. Now how do I set this in alpine? The INBOX is

>> specified as:

>>

>> {servername/user=username/ssl}INBOX

>>

>> What I am looking for is a correct syntax for:

>>

>> {servername/user=username/ssl}"Sent Items"

>

> I use alpine for accessing an exchange 2007 server all the time.

> Other than it being slow to display the index listing, and losing my

> imap connection a few times a week, it usually works fairly well. I

> have a folder collection set to:

>

> outlook {servername.tld/ssl/novalidate-cert/user=ads\user}[]

>

> Your syntax for the INBOX works fine for me.


Yes, that's not what the OP is looking for.

He needs something that works for "Sent Items"

-Dan


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