On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:25:10AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
Just for curiosity, can you try "PERSONAL_EMAIL@utoronto.ca"\x5c"SHARED_MAILBOX@utoronto.ca" in you .fetchmailrc ? The manpage is not clear whether you can use \xhh in quoted string (though highly likely).
Tried it, and in fetchmail it still passes the wrong number of backslashes. As far as I can tell, fetchmail and O365 only exchange an even number of backslashes: one gets you 0, two gets 2, three gets 2, four gets 4, and so on. I have no idea why this should be so, apart from the Universal Law of Software Perversity. Doesn't matter if I do straight characters, quoted or escaped characters, decimal, octal, hexadecimal ... -- Peter King peter.king@utoronto.ca Department of Philosophy 170 St. George Street #521 The University of Toronto (416)-978-3311 dept Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 CANADA http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ ========================================================================= GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42