>> Where did you find your example ? I don't see anything on the README.md
>> file on the git repository. And the one in the manual [1] is very
>> different from yours.
> At the bottom of the INSTALL.md page[2] in gitorious.
>
>> [1] http://alot.readthedocs.org/en/latest/configuration/index.html#accounts
> [2]https://github.com/pazz/alot/blob/master/INSTALL.md

The "latest" docs on readthedocs reflects the testing branch of pazz/alot,
where the config system has changed a bit. And the "0.21" version page only
contains API/devel docs, which makes it a bit confusing.