Recently we were forcibly "migrated" to Office365 for our email services, and with the change numerous things were broken. One of the last things I cannot figure out how to solve is how to pass an alias email address to the MS server. So in .fetchmailrc I have a line like this: user "prof.bozo@utoronto.ca\department.chair@utoronto.ca" there with password "XYZZY" is bozo here But this fails, and in the fetchmail logfiles it represents the username as not having a backslash: Jul 4 14:35:14 fetchmail[13829]: IMAP> A0002 LOGIN "prof.bozo@utoronto.camedieval.philosophy@utoronto.ca" * Jul 4 14:35:14 fetchmail[13829]: IMAP< A0002 NO LOGIN failed. Jul 4 14:35:14 fetchmail[13829]: IMAP> A0003 LOGOUT If I double-backslash it, though, I get a double backslash in the username. Ditto for triple, quadruple, and quintuple backslashes. Nor does it work if I single-quote the backslash. According to the fetchmail manual, the backslash is used to communicate via ASCII sequences and codes with fetchmail, and it's pretty clear that this is part of the problem. Google turned up a few people with the same problem, but they seemed to have their problems (from 7+ years ago) fixed by multiple backslashes, which clearly aren't working for me. Any ideas? Our local people maintaining the MS Office365 nonsense dont' support fetchmail and are not interested in helping ... -- 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