Installing Mutt

Steve yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 8 16:34:51 UTC 2010


On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:23:21 -0000, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark_glyphs

-- 
Steve




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