[VM] Request for howto select email easily
Guys, I've been a long time user of VM, and I use it to read lots of email, including a couple of very high volume mailing lists. I'd like to usually just delete most of the email, but then go back and un-delete any emails and threads where certain people have written. My way to following only the generally good discussions. So how would I go about doing this? I guess I could setup a Macro in Emacs itself to go about doing this, but that seems clunky and error prone. The basic idea would be: 1. Delete all new emails. 2. Mark all emails from any of the email addresses listed in 3. Mark all threads those emails from 2 are in. Or mark all emails with the same subject as those found in 2. 4. Un-delete all those emails. 5. Clear the marks. Any hints? My elisp-fu is horribly non-existent. Wrapping my brain around lisp is just never going to happen. Sorry. :-) John
Re: [VM] Request for howto select email easily
Interesting application! Here are the basic ideas. The basic idea would be: 1. Delete all new emails. You would need to set vm-arrived-message-hook or vm-arrived-messages-hook to delete the new mail. 2. Mark all emails from any of the email addresses listed in 3. Mark all threads those emails from 2 are in. Or mark all emails with the same subject as those found in 2. You would need to define a virtual folder for the kind of messages you want to read. See in particular, the `thread' virtual-selector operator. vm-mark-messages-by-virtual-folder should allow you to mark these messages. 4. Un-delete all those emails. M N u does it. 5. Clear the marks. M u does it. (All this applies to VM 8.2.0b. Can't say if it works in older versions.) Cheers, Uday
Re: [VM] Request for howto select email easily
Thanks for the pointers Uday, this is a good start. Now how would I bind this all to a single key-stroke on my VM instance? I assume I would need to defun a new function to step through and do all the steps you list below, since I really don't want to have to do this all by hand each time. And I'd love to be easily able to add/delete email addresses from the list of email addresses to watch for. Uday Interesting application! Here are the basic ideas. The basic idea would be: 1. Delete all new emails. Uday You would need to set vm-arrived-message-hook or vm-arrived-messages-hook to Uday delete the new mail. 2. Mark all emails from any of the email addresses listed in 3. Mark all threads those emails from 2 are in. Or mark all emails with the same subject as those found in 2. Uday You would need to define a virtual folder for the kind of messages you want Uday to read. See in particular, the `thread' virtual-selector operator. Uday vm-mark-messages-by-virtual-folder should allow you to mark these messages. 4. Un-delete all those emails. Uday M N u does it. 5. Clear the marks. Uday M u does it. Uday (All this applies to VM 8.2.0b. Can't say if it works in older versions.) Uday Cheers, Uday Uday
