[mew-int 00966] setup for imap in mew-3.0.55, help please

[Fernando Silva]

Hi,

I've been trying to setup mew to use imap but have not succeeded! ;-(

Because I didn't want to mess up with my mail-folders, I decided to
use a new account to experiment with it. I've installed mew-3.0.55
and used info provided by Tatsuya [mew-int 00891] to configure my
.emacs. I tried also Tatsuya's .mew.el config file but still I get:

>Loading places from ~/.emacs-places...
>Loading places from /home/fds2/.emacs-places...done
>Loading mew...done
>Setting up Mew world...
>Updating status...done
>Setting up Mew world...done
>cd-absolute: ~/Mail/.pop/fds2 at example.com%pop3/inbox/: no such directory

I'm using Mandrake 8.3 with its emacs distribution. I reduced my .emacs to
the following:

(autoload 'mew "mew"nil t)
(autoload 'mew-send "mew"nil t)
(setq mew-mailbox-type 'imap)
(setq mew-use-8bit t)
(setq mew-auto-get t)
(setq mew-icon-directory "/usr/lib/emacs/etc/Mew")

and my .mew.el  is as follows:

;;; .mew.el --- a sample of .mew.el for Mew
;; Author: Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats at example.com>
;; Created: Tue,  9 Apr 2002
;; Revised: Sun, 30 Jun 2002
;;
;; Config
;;
(setq mew-config-alist
      '(
       ("default";; case
;;;   ;; On Mew 3, mew-proto decides the default folder.
       ("proto". "%") ;; "+"/"%"/"$"/"-"(local/IMAP/POP/NNTP)
       ("imap-server". "imap.ncc.up.pt")
       ("imap-user". "fds2") ;; (user-login-name)
       ("imap-auth". nil) ;; t means SASL.  nil means plain password.
       ("mew-imap-inbox-folder". "%inbox") 
       ))

I expected mew to ask me for the imap-server password for user fds2,
instead it seems to be trying a pop connection!

Is there anything that I'm doing wrong? Any help is very much welcome.

Best,

Fernando Silva
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