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.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/>
.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches,
.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
-.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "06 November 2006" "SP" ""
+.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "24 October 2007" "SP" ""
.SH NAME
archivemail \- archive and compress your old email
@@ -220,11 +220,14 @@ Display brief summary information about how to run \fBarchivemail\fR\&.
.PP
To archive an \fBIMAP\fR-format mailbox, use the format
\fBimap://username:password@server/mailbox\fR to specify the
-mailbox. You can omit the password from the URL; use the
-\fB--pwfile\fR option to make \fBarchivemail\fR read the
-password from a file, or just enter it upon request. Substitute 'imap\&'
-with 'imaps\&', and \fBarchivemail\fR will establish a secure
-SSL connection.
+mailbox. If your username or password contains the '@' or ':' character,
+you can double-quote it like this:
+\fBimap://"username@bogus.com":"password"@server/mailbox\fR\&. Use a
+backslash to escape double-quotes that are part of a quoted username or password.
+You can omit the password from the URL; use the \fB--pwfile\fR
+option to make \fBarchivemail\fR read the password from a file, or just
+enter it upon request. Substitute 'imap\&' with 'imaps\&', and
+\fBarchivemail\fR will establish a secure SSL connection.
.PP
When reading an \fBmbox\fR-format mailbox, \fBarchivemail\fR will
create a lockfile with the extension \fI\&.lock\fR so that