[bug-mailutils] pop/imap problem: user name contains '@'

[Paul Vojta]

Folks:

Gnu mailutils (and mailx in particular) seems to be unable to connect
to a POP or IMAP server if the user name contains the '@' character.
This is becoming increasingly common, as often a single POP or IMAP server
will serve users with varying FQDNs, while avoiding namespace collisions
between those domains.  For example, I have a POP account at the
server pop.att.yahoo.com, whose user name is my entire email address:
address@hidden .

Here's a quick patch (possibly not ideal):

------
--- mailutils-2.0/mailbox/url.c.orig    2008-12-08 11:06:08.000000000 -0800
+++ mailutils-2.0/mailbox/url.c 2009-02-13 19:51:56.000000000 -0800
@@ -389,7 +389,8 @@
       else
        {
          /* Split into LHS and RHS of the '@', and then parse each side. */
-         u->host = strchr (name, '@');
+         /* The user name may contain '@', so take the last one. */
+         u->host = strrchr (name, '@');
          if (u->host == NULL)
            u->host = name;
          else
------

The documentation may need to be changed, too.

FWIW:  mailutils-2.0, Debian Linux unstable, x86_64.

        ./configure DEFAULT_CUPS_CONFDIR=/etc/cups --disable-mh-utils \
          --with-guiledir=/usr/share/guile/site --with-gnutls

--Paul Vojta, address@hidden