Thank you both a lot for your kind and detailed explanations! This way me and others can reuse some of your experiences.
I have tried out sorting away messages with filter like the following and look at mail from several folders altogether with a virtual folder called "inbox". In order to receive new mail while visiting this virtual folder I type 'g' and vm asks me for all the passwords and retrieves mail, which is okay for me. Johan Vromans schrieb am Saturday, January 19: > Sometimes I archive mail that has been dealt with, e.g. business mail, > but most often I do not. Every month, I move the INBOX to INBOX.YYYYMM, > and the INBOX I work with is a virtual folder consisting of the current > INBOX, and the old INBOXes of the past three months. This way I keep the > mails that I have online limited to 1000-2000. I also like your archiving method, Johan. Have not yet configured it here, though. have a nice evening everyone Stefan ;; Examples: (setq vm-auto-folder-alist '( ("^List-ID: " ("viewmail-info" . "vmlist")) ("^\\(From\\|Sender\\): " ("\\(foo\\|bar\\|another\\)" . "newsletters")) ) ) (setq vm-virtual-folder-alist '( ("inbox" (("web" "gmail" "stmail" "opera") (any) ) ) ) )