Subject: Re: IMAP access to remote INBOX?

From: Darren 0tero <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 17:00:13 -0400

UMABnet Help Account wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to set up IMAP access to a remote account.  Per the
> instructions in the online help and in numerous messages to
> comp.mail.pine, I've added
>         {umabnet.ab.umd.edu}mail/[]
> to the folder collection, and that works properly.  However, adding
>         {umabnet.ab.umd.edu}INBOX
> to get the remote INBOX generates an error message, as follows:
>           [Bad context, No '[' in context : {umabnet.ab.umd.edu}INBOX]
> Pine opens, but the remote INBOX doesn't appear in the folder list.

In your .pinerc file, try this line:
# Name/path of inbox. (Folder path name or "{host}inbox" for remote IMAP
inbox)
inbox-path={umabnet.ab.umd.edu}/var/spool/mail/help

(or wherever your mail is spooled to.)

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Darren Otero
User System Specialist
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
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