I've been using qmail for a long time, with Maildir and rmail. I use
the mdmovemail program which is available on the Qmail site, and it
works fine with rmail.
Now, however, it is time for me to upgrade to a MUA with better
support for MIME. It seems like the best choice for emacs is vm.
It was easy to install vm into emacs, and it works fine for sending
mail, but I can't get it to receive mail using mdmovemail.
I put this line in my .vm:
(setq vm-movemail-program "/usr/local/qmail/bin/mdmovemail")
and I setenv MAIL to ~/Maildir/, and that should be all it needs, but
it doesn't work. I'm pretty sure what's happening is that vm is
looking in ~/Maildir for a file with the same name as my username, and
when it doesn't find it, it assumes that there is no mail for me, and
gives up happily.
I search the archives of this list, and found some mail from a few
years ago, with a wrapper for mdmovemail, but that did not seem like a
reliable way to do this, so I didn't even try it.
Does anyone have some recomendations? Maybe a patch to vm? I'm very
ready to switch to vm from rmail, because it seems like a better way
to go.
Thanks,
e
