Julian Bradfield writes:
Urgh. mbox format is totally sick. From-stuffing will screw you
whatever you do. mbox format is the most evil Unix legacy not yet
exterminated.
I recommend mmdf format. (Not ideal, but I've never yet had cause to
send a mail including the mmdf delimiter.)
Hi Julian,
Hi Julian, VM doesn't do any From-stuffing. Some other Unix tools do. So,
as long as VM is fetching mail from POP3 servers and putting it in own mbox,
there are no problems.
If it doesn't From-stuff, how does it handle messages that might
contain text such as
From a load of junk 42
Subject:
Julian Bradfield writes:
On 2012-09-20, Uday Reddy usr.vm.ro...@gmail.com wrote:
If you are commiting to using VM, then your best bet is to keep VM folders
in its native mbox format, and work with Mutt and VM in parallel for a
Urgh. mbox format is totally sick. From-stuffing will
Peter Davis writes:
I'm not familiar with mmdf. Does VM support any file-per-message
formats? I'm only aware of Maildir and MH, but I thought there might be
a shot.
No, MMDF is also a bulk folder format. The only file-per-message support
that I know of is the virtual folder method I
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 02:15:50PM -0400, Peter Davis wrote:
Ok, on a totally different tack, I currently have mutt setup so I can
1) Fetch my mail from a few different accounts on various POP3 servers,
2) Store it in Maildir format, and
3) Read it with mutt
Can I do this with VM? I've
Peter Davis writes:
Ok, since this was met with stoney silence, and my searches for using VM
with Maildir haven't been too fruitful, how about MH format? I assume VM
still supports that, right?
Sorry, Peter. You are out luck. VM doesn't support either mailder or MH
format (yet). There is
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 05:26:17PM +0100, Uday Reddy wrote:
Peter Davis writes:
Ok, since this was met with stoney silence, and my searches for using VM
with Maildir haven't been too fruitful, how about MH format? I assume VM
still supports that, right?
Sorry, Peter. You are out luck.
On 2012-09-20, Uday Reddy usr.vm.ro...@gmail.com wrote:
If you are commiting to using VM, then your best bet is to keep VM folders
in its native mbox format, and work with Mutt and VM in parallel for a
Urgh. mbox format is totally sick. From-stuffing will screw you
whatever you do. mbox format
I'm sorry this if this is a duplicate. I tried to respond earlier from
VM, but as far as I can tell, the message was never sent.
At Wed, 19 Sep 2012 06:33:59 +0100,
Uday Reddy wrote:
Peter Davis writes:
1) How can I send messages? I've tried 'm' and M-x vm-mail, but I just get
the
Ok, on a totally different tack, I currently have mutt setup so I can
1) Fetch my mail from a few different accounts on various POP3 servers,
2) Store it in Maildir format, and
3) Read it with mutt
Can I do this with VM? I've found some sites that reference using Maildir
as a spool, but I want
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