[Solved] Re: why does mutt ask twice for the password in Hardy?

[H.S.]

H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is a bit strange thing for me. On a machine running Hardy, if I
> start up mutt, it asks for my password twice. I have tried to find out
> why that is so, but I am not sure what I am looking for.
> 
> I check my mail from an imap server on our LAN in our univ. If I try to
> check the mail from another machine (not running Hardy), mutt asks for
> the password only once. So that rules out .muttrc (/home is same in all
> machines) and the imap server and leaves on the version of mutt. At
> least that is all I can guess.
> 
> Any way to see what is causing this and how to solve this? The version
> of mutt on Hardy is 1.5.17+20080114-1ubuntu.
> 
> Thanks.



I think that it is solved. I tried searching google with different terms
now and after going through a few hoops settled on fixing the spool and
folder variables. Earlier, I had the following two lines in my .muttrc
set spoolfile=imap://imap.server.edu/INBOX.  # Default spoolfile
set folder=imap://imap.server.edu   # Dir. that contains all mail files

I just replaced imap: with imaps: and now mutt doesn't ask for the
password the second time.

Now if anyone can explain the reason behind this, it would icing on the
cake.

Thanks.





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