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Vm describes itself as: ============== VM mail reader ============== More at https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/vm.html ## Summary: # The Emacs mail reader VM (a.k.a. ViewMail) VM is a mail reader that runs under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It was written as an alternative to the Emacs RMAIL mail reader by Kyle Jones. VM is highly configurable and easy to use. It supports POP and IMAP mail servers, understands MIME, and handles mail folders in the standard UNIX mailbox format and the BABYL format used by the RMAIL mailer. It has a powerful virtual folder facility to facilitate searching as well as more advanced handling of multiple mail folders. This site exists to continue VM development community project. VM is available from <https://gitlab.com/emacs-vm/vm> ## Version Information The VM versions 8.3.0 and up are designed to work with: ## Recent NEWS: -*-Text-*- This file contains the list of changes up to revision 7.19, developed by Kyle Jones. For recent changes, please see the `NEWS' file. VM 7.19 released (29 September 2004) * New variables: + vm-stunnel-program-additional-configuration-file * added vm-mouse-send-url-to-safari to send URLs to Safari under Mac OS X. * added docstrings for vm-mime-reader-map-* commands. * normalized prefix key description layout in vm-mode docstring. * added some missing MIME commands to menu entries. * undo change in vm-preview-current-message that required vm-auto-decode-mime-messages to be non-nil along with vm-display-using-mime before creating the presentation copy of a message. It has the unexpected side-effect of breaking 'D' when vm-auto-decode-mime-messages is nil. VM 7.18 released (2 November 2003) * New variables: + vm-default-new-folder-line-ending-type * vm-mail-internal: use idle timers to run vm-update-composition-buffer-name instead of post command hooks * vm-decode-mime-layout: always delete a MIME object button after doing a type conversion. * vm-mail-send: bind coding-system-for-write to match the coding system of mail-archive-file-name (if set) so that mail-do-fcc writes to the file using the correct line endings. * vm-make-tempfile-name, vm-make-tempfile: accept optional second argument 'proposed-filename' which will be used if a file with that name do not exist in vm-tempfile-directory. If such a file exists, then a number and a dash will be prepended to the proposed filename and the number will be incremented until no such file exists. * don't use vm-menu-fsfemacs-image-menu unless vm-use-menus is non-nil. * vm-preview-current-message: require vm-auto-decode-mime-messages to be non-nil along with vm-display-using-mime before creating the presentation copy. This helps prevent selection of the presentation buffer when the user likely needs to do M-x recover-file. VM 7.17 released (6 July 2003) * New commands: + vm-create-imap-folder + vm-delete-imap-folder + vm-rename-imap-folder * vm-edit-message-end: try to positoin the cursor in the message window roughly where it was in the edit window. * vm-read-imap-folder-name: allow vm-imap-make-session to return nil without crashing. Also, bind vm-imap-ok-to-ask non-nil so that vm-imap-make-session will interactively prompt for a password. * added menu entry to Folder menu for vm-visit-imap-folder. * vm-imap-normalize-spec: convert auth method to * instead of the IMAP folder name. * vm-imap-get-message-flags: fixed flag retrieval so that it actually works now. * vm-handle-file-recovery-or-reversion: find an IMAP spec for the buffer so that the spec is passed to the 'vm' command instead of the buffer-file-name. This fixes a wrong-type-argument error under M-x recover-file when done on a IMAP cache folder. * tapestry.el: in tapestery-window-edges check for existence of face-width and face-height in addition to window-pixel-edges. * search for BASE64/QP encoder/decoder programs and set the encoder/decoder program variable based on what we find. * vm-mf-default-action: if object is convertible to a displayble type mention the conversion that will happen in the action string. VM 7.16 released (26 May 2003) * New commands: + vm-visit-imap-folder + vm-visit-imap-folder-other-window + vm-visit-imap-folder-other-frame + vm-save-message-to-imap-folder * New variables: + vm-imap-server-list * vm-primary-inbox can now be a POP or IMAP mailbox specification. * vm-mime-set-xxx-parameter: use the parameter name passed in instead of assuming the name is "charset". The only calls to this function passed in "charset" as the name, so this bug wasn't affecting anything. * vm-decode-mime-encoded-words: do charset conversion if needed. Forgot to add this back when vm-mime-charset-converter-alist was added. * vm-send-mail-and-exit -> vm-mail-send-and-exit in vm-user-agent definition. * vm-mail-send-and-exit: dropped first arg requirement since the ... ...
