Installing Mutt FIXED!

Knapp magick.crow at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 16:41:50 UTC 2010


On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I have IMAP turned on with my Gmail account and it seems all is set up
> right but I am still failing the login.
> ARG! LOL, help?
>
YES!! The single quotes were also wrong. Double quotes on the name and
password made it work!!



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