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LordRaiden

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Registered: 2007-03-12

Posts: 16

How do mutt account hooks work?

I've been trying to get mutt account-hooks work for the better part of Sunday. I want to use account-hooks since i have several email addresses that I want mutt to manage.

I tried something like this in my .muttrc

account-hook imap://host1/ 'set imap_user=me1 imap_pass=foo'

But it did not seem to work. If anyone could show me something that's working for them, it would be greatly appreciated.

By the way, currently, I'm using macros as a workaround 

macro index S "<change-folder>$my_email<enter>" 'Switch mailbox'

where $my_email = imap://host1

Thanks in advance

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: How do mutt account hooks work?

How about you just let offlineimap handle the connection to your IMAP-Accounts and just use mutt to access the Maildir? Saves you a lot of trouble. You can find it in community.

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LordRaiden

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Registered: 2007-03-12

Posts: 16

Re: How do mutt account hooks work?

Thanks for the tip. For now, I am happy using the macro but I'll definitely keep offlineimap in mind. I'd like to understand why offlineimap doesn't work though.