Installing Mutt

[Knapp]

2010/2/8 Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt>:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:58:12PM +0100, Knapp wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Ulf Rompe <ulf.buntu at rompe.org> wrote:
>> > Am 08.02.2010 15:45, schrieb Knapp:
>> >> The Error is:
>> >> douglas4 at frog:~$ mutt
>> >> Error in /home/douglas4/.muttrc, line 5: Mail”: unknown variable
>> >> source: errors in /home/douglas4/.muttrc
>> >
>> > Line 5 reads:
>> >
>> >> set record=”imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Sent Mail”
>> >
>> > It's pretty clear that the space character causes the problem. Not
>> > knowing mutt, I would just try to encode it:
>> >
>> > set record=”imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Sent%20Mail”
>> >
>> > Does that help?
>> > --
>> > [x] u1f
>>
>>
>> It stopped the error but I am still getting a failed login. Any ideas?
>> I know the password is correct.
>
> Are you really using smart quotes (”) instead of straight quotes (") in
> your .muttrc file, or did your mail client obfuscate the situation by
> converting them?
>
> Mutt won't understand smart quotes, which could be causing your problem
> (or it might not...).
>
> Marius Gedminas

Wow, good catch. It was inn the file because I cut and pasted from a
web site. What the heck is a smart quote?


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Douglas E Knapp

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