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

[Josh Rickmar]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:


> 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

>

>

>


It works for me with just (with your example):

{servername/user=username/ssl}Sent Items

I set my INBOX to another folder with a space ("Mailing Lists"), and
after restarting Alpine, it opened to that folder first.  I imagine this
then would would work for all folders.

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