Re: Problem if "vm-summary-arrow" is not a 2-character-long string

2021-10-15 Thread Uday Reddy
and a public release is that you have to run "autoconf" before anything else. This is the step 0 described in the INSTALL file. Cheers, Uday On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 3:33 PM Uday Reddy wrote: > alain.coch...@unistra.fr writes: > > > It seems like VM tries to reintroduce a 2-ch

Re: Problem if "vm-summary-arrow" is not a 2-character-long string

2021-10-15 Thread Uday Reddy
alain.coch...@unistra.fr writes: > It seems like VM tries to reintroduce a 2-character-long string. For > example if I use 4 characters, it becomes like this: > > 73 alain.coch...@unistra.fr Mon 11 Oct 2021 18:40 test png >74 D R AmelieMon 11 Oct 2021 19:11

Re: Saving vs deleting attachments

2021-07-14 Thread Uday Reddy
rob...@capuchin.co.uk writes: > Also easy to do - as my workflow is usually save followed by delete > attachment. If that is your normal workflow then you should set vm-mime-delete-after-saving to t. Then you don't need an extra delete step after save. The manual explains that this is a good

Re: vm under emacs 27.1

2021-01-07 Thread Uday Reddy
It is a good idea to compile your configuration files M-x byte-compile-file so that you get to find out what configuration variables are currently problematic. When the variable name completely disappears after several years, you will be out of luck. Cheers, Uday

Re: Emacs bug

2020-03-16 Thread Uday Reddy
Ok, filed a bug report for it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/vm/+bug/1867368 This is part of core VM. Cheers, Uday

Re: [VM] Moving from VM Was: Time to move to Mutt?

2019-11-06 Thread Uday Reddy
nongnu@niwas.net writes: > It's going to die?? NO! I only barely just switched from rmail! :-< Nice to know that there are users still switching in to VM. Welcome! > Hey, all my mail is still in 1000 (2000?) Babyl files. I just discovered > that Python has a pretty much universal email

Re: [VM] how to get latest version of VM?

2019-09-02 Thread Uday Reddy
Please see the web page, http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/ which also points to the launchpad hosting site. The latest unofficial release is 8.2.0b, which you can download from launchpad. If that doesn't work with Emacs 26, you would need to get the trunk. Please see the README file in the VM

Re: [VM] Overridding vm's messing with windows

2018-08-24 Thread Uday Reddy
Robert Marshall writes: > I use vm's summary mode and most of the time I have a frame with just > that buffer visible. I've found a minor annoyance is that when I > vm-get-new-mail and if there is new mail, vm then splits that window, > and shows the presentation window under it, I have a few new

Re: [VM] 'This email requires HTML support' from outlook.office365.com

2018-04-20 Thread Uday Reddy
jcb...@jcbradfield.org writes: > Usually this means that the message is multipart/alternative, where > the text/plain part says "This email requires HTML support", instead > of (as it should) containing a plain text rendition of the text/html > part. Yes, that is a good explanation. There is a

Re: [VM] 'This email requires HTML support' from outlook.office365.com

2018-04-19 Thread Uday Reddy
Language like "This email" is never used by VM. You will need to hunt down the software that is generating that message. But if it is indeed a HTML message, you should be able to hit D a couple of times to get a button, and view it using an external viewer. Cheers, Uday pray...@unimelb.edu.au

Re: [VM] Overridding vm's messing with windows

2018-03-07 Thread Uday Reddy
s...@capuchin.co.uk writes: > I looked at vm-frame-per-summary but that isn't what I want. I'm quite > happy with when *I* type 'space' the summary frame splits but I don't > like vm deciding to do it for me! Am I missing some other configuration > variable? Hi, see the manual section on

Re: [VM] FCC for sent messages - how to merge into INBOX?

2017-04-13 Thread Uday Reddy
Hi Daigon, * As you have discovered, it is not a good idea to FCC into a folder that contains other messages. * I haven't used FCC in a long time. I will have to test it to see if it has problems. * Since you want to see your INBOX and the SENT folder together, a good way to do it would

Re: [VM] deleting messages on imap server

2017-03-27 Thread Uday Reddy
pray...@unimelb.edu.au writes: > I have a local cache and can delete things and vm-save-folder no problem. > Those changes, however, are not communicated to the server. [Sorry, I am just getting to see this message.] Your best bet may be to use vm-submit-bug-report so that I can see you

Re: [VM] Any newer releases than 8.2.0b?

2017-03-01 Thread Uday Reddy
Hi John, 8.2.0b is perfectly stable. The only problem is that you can't use C-x m without loading VM first. Cheers, Uday John Stoffel writes: > > Hi Uday, > I've been looking at Launchpade and I see various 8.3.x and 8.4.x > branches in the repository, and I was wondering what the status is

Re: [VM] vm-url-decode-buffer and UTF-8

2016-11-15 Thread Uday Reddy
Hi Göran, is this now taken care of by the bug fix you have filed on Launchpad? Cheers, Uday Göran Uddeborg writes: > I'm occasionally calling > > emacsclient ... vm-mail-to-mailto-url ... > > from scripts. It works fine for simple mailto:user@domain URL:s. But > if the URL also

Re: [VM] Incorrectly encoded non-ASCII headers

2016-11-15 Thread Uday Reddy
This is an important issue. As per the existing "standards", all message headers have to be in ASCII (with other character setes duly encoded). However, there is an RFC 6532, from February 2012, which is widely expected to become a standard. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6532 I think

Re: [VM] setting high priority for a message

2016-10-19 Thread Uday Reddy
Fabio Rinaldi writes: > > Dear VM users, > > I read my email at times with a web-based interface (roundcube) > and at times with VM in emacs. In roundcube I can "flag" a message, > and I noticed that flagged messages are shown in VM using the face: > > vm-summary-high-priority-face > >

Re: [VM] VM with multiple IMAP accounts/folders

2016-08-04 Thread Uday Reddy
Hippo Man writes: > Is all this possible under VM? Yes, almost. We don't have folder menu, but `vm-list-imap-folders' can be used to see what folders are there, with new messages etc. You would probably find it a bit primitive if you are used to having a good folder view. The rest of your

Re: [VM] vm & bbdb

2016-04-06 Thread Uday Reddy
Michael writes: > I am trying to start vm and I get this error: > Required feature 'bbdb-autoloads' was not provided > > Is this a problem with vm or bbdb? > I am running Debian Testing, vm-8.2.0b, and bbdb v3 Most likely a problem with bbdb or your customizations. VM itself doesn't know

Re: [VM] Incorrectly encoded non-ASCII headers

2016-03-05 Thread Uday Reddy
Yeechang Lee writes: > (Disclaimer: I am on Emacs 23 and VM 8.1.2.) > > I sometimes receive messages in which headers--usually the subject > line--uses non-ASCII characters without quoting them as per RFC > 2047. (Wikipedia's article-of-the-day mailing list is a frequent > offender.) > > I

Re: [VM] VM change in Emacs 24 - leaving mail mode

2015-12-16 Thread Uday Reddy
Daniel Barrett writes: > On December 15, 2015, Uday Reddy wrote: > >> I've noticed a change in VM's behavior since upgrading to Emacs 24. > >> When I'm composing an email and I run "save-buffer" to a file, the > >> buffer enters text-mode instead of st

Re: [VM] VM change in Emacs 24 - leaving mail mode

2015-12-15 Thread Uday Reddy
Daniel Barrett writes: > > I've noticed a change in VM's behavior since upgrading to Emacs 24. > When I'm composing an email and I run "save-buffer" to a file, the > buffer enters text-mode instead of staying in mail-mode. In previous > versions of Emacs, the buffer remained in mail-mode even

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer) (Hugo Geir)

2015-11-18 Thread Uday Reddy
Robert P. Goldman writes: > Is there any way to have VM open multiple inboxes upon startup? E.g., I > have a work IMAP account and a personal IMAP account. Can I have VM > start up with both of them open, ideally in different tabs? You can define little elisp functions to do whatever you want.

Re: [VM] Experiences trying to restart using VM

2015-11-18 Thread Uday Reddy
Robert P. Goldman writes: > When I first try to start up VM it slurps up years-old caches and grinds > away forever trying to do something with them. But I wasn't able to > figure out where these caches live and kill them > > Then when I tried to kill my session and restart, I ended up in a

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer) (Hugo Geir)

2015-11-16 Thread Uday Reddy
Kurt Hackenberg writes: > >You can set `vm-imap-max-message-size' to 0 to avoid loading message bodies. > > So, what, VM still keeps a local disk copy of the folder but puts only > headers in it? Which would mean that variable is the maximum size of > the body, not the whole message? Indeed.

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer) (Hugo Geir)

2015-11-16 Thread Uday Reddy
Kurt Hackenberg writes: > >You can set `vm-imap-max-message-size' to 0 to avoid loading message bodies. > > So, what, VM still keeps a local disk copy of the folder but puts only > headers in it? Which would mean that variable is the maximum size of > the body, not the whole message? Indeed.

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer) (Hugo Geir)

2015-11-13 Thread Uday Reddy
Robert P. Goldman writes: > I moved to Thunderbird when VM's IMAP interface was very limited. > > I'd like to come back to VM, but have felt like I could not because > AFAICT it doesn't support my current mode of operation, which involves > simultaneously keeping open two IMAP inboxes for two

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer)

2015-11-13 Thread Uday Reddy
John Stoffel writes: > I think if you just setup a git repository with a beta branch, and > some stable branches, you'd be just fine. Release lots of beta > attempts, but only a few release versions and things will be fine. VM is currently on a bzr repository on Launchpad. The README file gives

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer)

2015-11-05 Thread Uday Reddy
Johan Vromans writes: > However, when a mail folder gets big (more than 2000 messages or so) > VM really slows down. With big IMAP folders it becomes painfully slow > when saving (due to the local cache of 100+Mb) and autosave (or poll?) > makes Emacs unresponsive for several seconds every couple

Re: [VM] VM is awesome (was vm-save-buffer)

2015-11-05 Thread Uday Reddy
Johan Vromans writes: > > *** Initial load of the IMAP cache often stops after a number of messages: > > Retrieving message 346 (of 1689) from Home:Inbox, 100%... [3 times] > Retrieval from Home:Inbox signaled: (vm-imap-protocol-error expected > (BODY[] string) in FETCH response) Retrieving

[VM] vm-save-buffer

2015-11-04 Thread Uday Reddy
There are two functions called `vm-save-buffer' and `vm-save-folder'. - `vm-save-folder' is the correct one to use. It does more. - But `vm-save-buffer' is bound to C-x C-s. Does anybody `vm-save-buffer' instead of `vm-save-folder'? For what purpose? There is a proposal to get rid of it (or

Re: [VM] vm-next-message weirdness

2015-01-30 Thread Uday Reddy
Damien Wetzel writes: Hello, i noticed that when i hit n for vm-next-message i have the end of the next message in the preview buffer not the beginning, would someone know how to fix this ? Best Regards, Damien You haven't said which version of VM this is about. Please download the

Re: [VM] IMAP cache

2014-12-16 Thread Uday Reddy
Johan Vromans writes: With a 60MB imap-cache (1000 messages) my VM slows down to the point of becoming unusable. Is there really no solution? If you use external messages, 1000 messages work fine. (See the Starting Up section in the manual.) It is only beyond 6000 messages or so that I get

Re: [VM] IMAP cache

2014-12-16 Thread Uday Reddy
Johan Vromans writes: With a 60MB imap-cache (1000 messages) my VM slows down to the point of becoming unusable. Is there really no solution? If you use external messages, 1000 messages work fine. (See the Starting Up section in the manual.) It is only beyond 6000 messages or so that I get

Re: [VM] Weird performance issue with a VM folder

2014-12-16 Thread Uday Reddy
Daniel Barrett writes: The old headers at the top of the file were: X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [17232 Friday 15 February 2013 11:38:17 -0800 Name Lastname name_lastn...@xx.yyy.zz.us nil 317 8th Grade student/parent night XXHS

Re: [VM] Starting with IMAP folder

2014-11-16 Thread Uday Reddy
Johan Vromans writes: Hi, I want to start up VM with an IMAP folder. However, it seems that vm-visit-imap-folder only works when called interactively. Is there an alternative way to start VM with an IMAP folder? You can set vm-primary-inbox to an IMAP folder. You have to use the long

Re: [VM] Keeping track of the last save-folder name?

2014-11-14 Thread Uday Reddy
Daniel Barrett writes: I'm trying to keep track of the last folder name that received a saved message, so I can restore it after a save: (setq default vm-last-save-folder) (vm-save-message 'my-other-folder) (setq vm-last-save-folder default) Indeed, as Piet said it is a buffer-local

Re: [VM] A trash folder for the primary inbox (code review requested)

2014-11-14 Thread Uday Reddy
Daniel Barrett writes: For example, I hard-coded the strings Summary and Presentation -- is there a better way to obtain them automatically? Any other tips? For this older question, note that there are variables `vm-summary-buffer' and `vm-presentation-buffer', which are set in the folder

Re: [VM] IMAP protocol error on save after get

2014-11-06 Thread Uday Reddy
Dear Robert, Is this problem still happening with Emacs 24.4? Cheers, Uday Robert Marshall writes: I'm running with a recent build from the emacs devel trunk and since I've swapped to this version I'm consistently seeing this error: vm-imap-protocol-error: IMAP protocol error: No response

Re: [VM] vm and [emacs] desktop

2014-11-04 Thread Uday Reddy
Robert Marshall writes: on a restart my vm imap cache files are loaded but they don't appear as a VM INBOX The desktop file entry looks ok (desktop-create-buffer 206 /home/robert/Mail/imap-cache-10fa627ba88db87c673417642ff5d908 ...) Well, the IMAP cache files have such ugly names

Re: [VM] bug in mime encoding of cached data

2014-10-27 Thread Uday Reddy
Julian Bradfield writes: When I get mail From: non-ASCII names, whenever the inbox is auto-saved, I get errors about invalid encodings; and when I save and re-visit the folder, the non-ASCII has been replaced by ~ . That is bad. I don't have problems like this on Gnu Emacs. So, something

Re: [VM] IMAP protocol errors with large folders

2014-09-19 Thread Uday Reddy
Matthew Vernon writes: If I visit a folder that has a lot of messages that aren't in my local IMAP cache (e.g. because I've not looked at it in VM for a while), then from time to time the update will stop, and the following error appear in *Messages*: Retrieving message 1700 (of 2873) from

Re: [VM] Request for howto select email easily

2014-09-18 Thread Uday Reddy
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

[VM] Fiddle with attachment - [Delete]

2014-08-01 Thread Uday Reddy
When you have attached a file to an outgoing message, you can right click on it and a menu pops up. The menu is labelled Fiddle with attachment. Rob F. seem to have added two functions to this menu called: [Delete] and [Delete, but keep infos] He only implemented these functions for xemacs

Re: [VM] displaying text/html with utf-8 via w3m

2014-07-25 Thread Uday Reddy
Ralf Fassel writes: The umlaut-a has been replaced by a space. If I run the text manually through w3m, the ouput still contains the utf-8 character, just the HTML-markup is gone. But after inserting in the Presentation buffer the umlaut is changed to a space. The first thing to check would

Re: [VM] MIME encoding/decoding

2014-07-17 Thread Uday Reddy
John Hein writes: We should check the performance of builtin decoding - particularly with larger messages on slower machines. That said, most of the unix flavors cygwin out there now have one or more command line tools to en/decode base64 (less prevalent are qp tools) which can take the

[VM] MIME encoding/decoding

2014-07-16 Thread Uday Reddy
VM has traditionally shipped with C programs for MIME encoding/decoding. Rob F created an entire Unix-like infrastructure (Make files, configure, autoconf etc.) pretty much to handle just these. If we get rid of these C programs, VM can be shipped just like any other emacs library. Both GNU

Re: [VM] Make vm-save-and-expunge-folder use a trash can?

2014-06-06 Thread Uday Reddy
Rebind the delete key (`d') to the `vm-save-message-to-trash' function defined here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.viewmail/106 Cheers, Uday Daniel Barrett writes: Hi - I just joined the viewmail-info list today. Been using VM for maybe 20 years...? Anyway, I have a question.

Re: [VM] gmail starred and vm flagged not synchronizing well?

2014-03-17 Thread Uday Reddy
Concurrent access is always a tricky business. Please be sure to read very carefully the section IMAP Synchronization in the VM manual: Top Starting Up POP and IMAP Folders IMAP Folders Here are some reasons I can think of, for getting misbehaviour. 1. VM uses manual save. Most other

Re: [VM] Using VM for 19 years, still can't solve iconv: (stdin):21:31: cannot convert

2013-10-29 Thread Uday Reddy
John Stoffel writes: I take exception to this personally. I try to be active but since I have zero elisp skills (and honestly don't want to relearn lisp again if I can help it), I can't contribute code to the project. I don't mean to suggest that those of you that participate in the

Re: [VM] Using VM for 19 years, still can't solve iconv: (stdin):21:31: cannot convert

2013-10-28 Thread Uday Reddy
edburns writes: Os: SunOS foo 5.10 Generic_144489-05 i86pc i386 i86pc Emacs: 21.4 (patch 22) \Instant Classic\ XEmacs Lucid vm: 8.0.12-devo-585 If you pick up the current beta version of XEmacs, you probably won't need iconv. It will know how to deal with MIME character sets. vm

Re: [VM] sending email with ssl to Verizon server

2013-10-27 Thread Uday Reddy
Richard J. Frongillo writes: My environment: Windows 7 Home GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN VM version is: 8.1.2 CYGWIN32/NT MYMACHINE 6.1 17.5 i686 stunnel version 4.56 (from stunnel.org) VM 8.1.2 was not made for Emacs 24 and so

Re: [VM] trouble starting vm in emacs 23

2013-09-19 Thread Uday Reddy
Michael writes: Running Emacs 23.4.1 on Debian testing. Downloaded bbdb 3 and vm-8.2.0b. When trying to start vm with M-x vm, I get the following: symbol's value as variable is void: bbdb-define-all-aliases-field BBDB 3 has not been released yet. You are welcome to try it, but please be

Re: [VM] Only ellipsis (...) in Folder presenstation

2013-09-06 Thread Uday Reddy
b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de writes: I strippped down my .emacs to the bare minimum for run vm. The behaviour persists. I have appended a screenshot of the displayed ellipsis and an offending mail folder. Can anybody test if the error is repeatable on other systems? Might it

Re: [VM] Only ellipsis (...) in Folder presenstation

2013-09-06 Thread Uday Reddy
b...@hertz.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de writes: Second observation: - Now some messages only display a line with dashes, like -- See appended screenshot. Please test with the mail folder I sent in earlier mail. I couldn't

Re: [VM] VM-pcrisis and the From header

2013-08-13 Thread Uday Reddy
Matthew Vernon writes: Hi, I have set up vm-pcrisis to set my From: line based on which account I'm replying to emails from (IYSWIM). This seems to mostly work, but there's one slight annoyance - setting the from line results in it being the last header, whereas I'd rather it was at the

Re: [VM] VM-pcrisis and the From header

2013-08-13 Thread Uday Reddy
Matthew Vernon writes: Ah. If I set vm-mail-header-from and let vm-pcrisis change it, then it appears at the top. If I leave vm-mail-header-from as nil, and let vm-pcrisis create the header, it ends up at the bottom. It probably means that VM's header-ordering works before VMPC does its

Re: [VM] N Stale messages are ignored

2013-08-06 Thread Uday Reddy
viewmail-i...@kosowsky.org writes: When I run this I get: (inbox label stale): No messages. Despite the fact that 'saving' gives me: 492 stale deleted messages are ignored In my experience, this situation happens only when a transfer from the IMAP server had to be aborted,

Re: [VM] N Stale messages are ignored

2013-08-05 Thread Uday Reddy
viewmail-i...@kosowsky.org writes: I keep getting the above message when I save my Imap folder. I copy my old message below: `V l stale' shows the stale messages. This is one of the dark corners of IMAP handling. If everything is working correctly, the *only* time this warning should arise

[VM] IMPORTANT: Bug reporting

2013-08-02 Thread Uday Reddy
Since you know that my time is extremely limited these days, may I ask people to be a bit more systematic in reporting bugs? Please take some time now to read the Bugs section of the VM manual and the link to the Emacs manual which explains how to report bugs. The subsection called

Re: [VM] Trivial bugs in vm-8.2.0b

2013-07-22 Thread Uday Reddy
Dr Rainer Woitok writes: xemacs -batch -no-autoloads -l ./vm-build.el -f batch-byte-compile vm-dired.el Compiling /home/Rainer/prod/vm-8.2.0b/lisp/vm-dired.el... Loading dired-mule... While compiling vm-dired-do-attach-files in file /home/Rainer/prod/vm-8.2.0b/lisp/vm-dired.el: **

Re: [VM] Are there plans to release 8.2?

2013-05-26 Thread Uday Reddy
John Stoffel writes: But this all just ignores my root question, why don't you release what you have now as 8.2.0c so we can see what's coming down the pike? Release early and often! Because I have already mentioned that I didn't have spare time. Spare time is what free software depends on,

Re: [VM] Are there plans to release 8.2?

2013-05-26 Thread Uday Reddy
John Stoffel writes: Sorry, my fault. I was trying to come up with a repeatable test case that was easy to show the problem. I *seems* to be because I do: - vm-visit-imap-folder - read a message - file the message to a *local* folder. - then expunge any changes with

Re: [VM] Are there plans to release 8.2?

2013-05-24 Thread Uday Reddy
John Stoffel writes: As far as I'm concerned, the problems I see lately are: - on startup, vm doesn't auto-load vm-reply properly. It's probably a stupidly simple bug, but it's annoying. Basically I have to 'r'eply to a mesage before 'm' to create a new message will work. If you

Re: [VM] vm-visit-imap-folder problem in 8.2.0b

2013-02-05 Thread Uday Reddy
John Stoffel writes: That works once I'm in the folder and have successfully authenticated. But if I start up, and do NOT have my imap folder accessed at all, then doing M-x vm-visit-imap-folder doesn't ask for my password at all. I have to do M-x vm-list-imap-folders, then it asks me

Re: [VM] vm-visit-imap-folder problem in 8.2.0b

2013-02-04 Thread Uday Reddy
John Stoffel writes: So now when I startup VM and do 'vm-visit-imap-folder' it doesn't ask me for my password, while 'vm-list-imap-folders' does. So in a new emacs/vm session, I have to first list the folders, then I can visit my imap folder. You probably need to hit `g' (vm-get-new-mail)

Re: [VM] Mainly: How do you use virtual folders every day? and other questions

2013-01-31 Thread Uday Reddy
Kyle Farrell writes: lists. I bind vm-switch-to-folder to a handy key (I use `), then finding a folder is simply ` followed by C-s and a few characters of the folder name. Interesting. I never knew about the C-s trick in all these years! I use SPC for completion, and UP/DOWN for scrolling

Re: [VM] Mainly: How do you use virtual folders every day? and other questions

2013-01-18 Thread Uday Reddy
stefan.grosshau...@stmail.uni-bayreuth.de writes: Uday Reddy wrote some time ago (http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/viewmail-info/2012-10/msg00025.html) : But I still wanted the subject tags retained in the INBOX folders, because the mail comes from a variety of sources and I want

Re: [VM] bug with labels in virtual folders

2013-01-08 Thread Uday Reddy
Julian Bradfield writes: My vm is Uday's private 8.2.X branch of 6 February 2012, but I think this bug is still in trunk (haven't tried it, though). Confirmed that this bug is present in the 8.2.x branch, but not the trunk. It is either fixed in the trunk or perhaps became harder to reproduce.

Re: [VM] Non-ASCII ISO-8859-1 characters not shown correctly

2013-01-02 Thread Uday Reddy
Yoshiharu Kohayakawa writes: Discarding the cache fixed all subject lines but one. This is a message in utf-8, which I put in the file octal_subject_message at http://www.ime.usp.br/~yoshi/TMP/VM/ This message is not in correct MIME format. Any non-ASCIi characters in the message

Re: [VM] vm-sit-for, display-hourglass, etc

2012-12-08 Thread Uday Reddy
Jay Borkenhagen writes: I changed display-hourglass to nil, and I now I do see the No new mail ... message disappear from the minibuffer after 4 seconds. If that is what I have to do to get the desired behavior I'm OK with that, but I think this all may not be working the way Uday had

Re: [VM] vm-pcrisis

2012-12-06 Thread Uday Reddy
Jay Borkenhagen writes: One thing that isn't quite working as I used to have or as is documented in the texinfo is the prompting. Per the texinfo: One thing to bear in mind is that when you are prompted, there will be auto-completion available -- you'll only need to type enough to

Re: [VM] vm-pcrisis

2012-12-05 Thread Uday Reddy
Hi Jay, when I corrected the two typos in your customization (changing `vmpc-action-alist' to `vmpc-actions-alist', and `vmpc-replies-alist' to `vmpc-reply-alist'), it ran perfectly fine as you were wanting. By the way, I recommend using standard symbols, e.g., always-true, instead of elaborate

Re: [VM] gmail issue

2012-11-28 Thread Uday Reddy
Uday Reddy writes: When I send a message to the viewmail-info mailing list from this email account (usr.vm.ro...@gmail.com) I don't get a copy of the message back to the account. I don't recall this happening a few months ago. I have done some testing to find out what gmail is doing. As we

Re: [VM] vm-set-labels question

2012-11-26 Thread Uday Reddy
Julian Bradfield writes: I don't understand this code. Where is it that it sets the labels on the real message and the virtual messages of the message? I don't think I understood the code all that clearly either. You are right that it is not doing anything to the virtual mirrors. But the

Re: [VM] gmail issue

2012-11-12 Thread Uday Reddy
James Freer writes: Could this be a problem with the new gmail UI and the way it handles replies. I notice they've removed it for this weekend which makes me think there are some problems to be sorted. In which case your problem could disappear. There do seem to be changes... and bugs.

Re: [VM] vm-mark-folder-modified-p

2012-11-11 Thread Uday Reddy
Julian Bradfield writes: Returning to the problem noted a while ago of VM marking a read-only folder modified when it upgrades attribute data: Is there *any* case in which vm-mark-folder-modified-p should work on a read-only folder? Good thinking, Julian. This should be a good place to

[VM] gmail issue

2012-11-11 Thread Uday Reddy
When I send a message to the viewmail-info mailing list from this email account (usr.vm.ro...@gmail.com) I don't get a copy of the message back to the account. I don't recall this happening a few months ago. I wonder if anybody else is experiencing this problem? (I save outgoing messages in

Re: [VM] Email dangers portrayed in media

2012-10-31 Thread Uday Reddy
James Freer writes: Gmail UI seems more secure in that respect but their big negative is to hide bottom portion of the message which is why i went back to using an email client again. You mean, when you send a message, you can't see what stuff you are citing? That is even worse than Outlook!

[VM] The Google docs paradigm

2012-10-22 Thread Uday Reddy
A major shift in computer technology over the last 20 years or so is the simplification of user interfaces allowing more people can use the systems in an easier way. Unfortunately, some simplifications come at a price. The older methods might have had flexibility or reliability that the newer

Re: [VM] Key bindings from presentation buffer reappears in the reply

2012-10-11 Thread Uday Reddy
Göran Uddeborg writes: When I do vm-reply-include-text, it appears this keymap is applied also to the reply to be edited. If I happen to type return inside the URL when editing the reply, I will go to that URL rather than insert a newline as I would have expected. I think I've been hit by

Re: [VM] Beginner VM questions

2012-09-21 Thread Uday Reddy
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,

Re: [VM] Beginner VM questions

2012-09-20 Thread Uday Reddy
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

Re: [VM] vm-pipe-messages-to-command messes up on virtual folders

2012-09-18 Thread Uday Reddy
On 8/21/2012 3:33 PM, viewmail-i...@kosowsky.org wrote: vm-pipe-messages-to-command seems to mess up the list of marked messages and the location of the current message after running when used in a *virtual* folder (it works fine in normal folders). I couldn't reproduce the problem you

Re: [VM] vm-pipe-messages-to-command messes up on virtual folders

2012-09-18 Thread Uday Reddy
On 8/21/2012 3:33 PM, viewmail-i...@kosowsky.org wrote: vm-pipe-messages-to-command seems to mess up the list of marked messages and the location of the current message after running when used in a *virtual* folder (it works fine in normal folders). I couldn't reproduce the problem you

Re: [VM] vm-pipe-messages-to-command messes up on virtual folders

2012-09-18 Thread Uday Reddy
Sorry for the multiple copies. (I made the mistake of sending that message from Thunderbird, which misbehaved!) Cheers, Uday

Re: [VM] Gnu.emacs.vm.info (.bugs) dropped from gnu.emacs hierarchy (again)

2012-07-16 Thread Uday Reddy
Kurt Hackenberg writes: You can use them, but you are dependent on the mail - news gateway at Stanford (the same one that all gnu newsgroups use) functioning properly. Our newsgroup is no more deprecated than any other gnu newsgroup. So that gateway doesn't work? Why not? Did it ever

Re: [VM] IMAP-SSL with Exchange Server

2012-06-22 Thread Uday Reddy
Lewis Perin writes: At this point, would it be appropriate to file a bug on the Launchpad site? The best way to file bug reports is to use M-x vm-submit-bug-report. But the bug-report function normally doesn't include private information in your settings, such as logins. So, you might need

Re: [VM] vm-reply/followup-include presentation

2012-06-18 Thread Uday Reddy
blueman writes: I'm trying to figure out what has happened to vm-reply-include-presentation and vm-followup-include presentation. The describe-function documentation is a bit unclear, since it seems to imply that a function is obsoleted and replaced by a variable, which is a bit

Re: [VM] Default account for imap

2012-06-18 Thread Uday Reddy
blueman writes: Given that there is a concept of a vm-imap-default-account, I think it might be helpful if such a default could be used to shorten references to imap folders on the default account, especially since most people are probably just using the default account the majority if not

Re: [VM] Default account for imap

2012-06-18 Thread Uday Reddy
blueman writes: I agree that pre-filling it in as the default is helpful in terms of saving typing but is it really necessary from a simplicity/cleanliness perspective. In other words, I would prefer a behavior that assumed the default server (maybe not even a need for a colon at all) unless

Re: [VM] IMAP-SSL with Exchange Server

2012-06-15 Thread Uday Reddy
Lewis Perin writes: So, where does it get into trouble? Immediately on login, I get “vm-imap-protocol-error: IMAP protocol error: unexpected char (10)”. Indeed, you said that. But what is in the trace buffer at this point? In particular, is there a line without a CR character (^M)?

Re: [VM] IMAP-SSL with Exchange Server

2012-06-15 Thread Uday Reddy
Lewis Perin writes: cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: c:\temp\vm387560729 Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/temp/vm387560729 CYGWIN environment variable option nodosfilewarning turns off this warning. Consult the user’s guide for more details about POSIX

Re: [VM] Any interest in trying to make local vs. IMAP folder treatment more seamless

2012-06-13 Thread Uday Reddy
blueman writes: Unfortunately, vm itself is not just binding heavy but actually binding dependent in that some key functions *only* seem to work when called from a key binding rather than from M-x. I think this is true btw for certain mark-related functions with next command uses marks. So

Re: [VM] 8.2.0b bug

2012-06-10 Thread Uday Reddy
John Stoffel writes: I think I just found a bug in version 8.2.0b which I'm using on my work machine (Centos 6.2, x86_64, emacs 23.1.1). When I mark a group of messages by subject, then save them, it tells me how many were written. Thanks, John. This has been fixed in the trunk, thanks to

Re: [VM] How to launch vm without spool and imap folders only...

2012-06-10 Thread Uday Reddy
blueman writes: That works like a charm... Now that my primary-inbox is an IMAP folder, what do I do with the following variables: vm-crash-box (since I am not spooling, is there anything to crash? so should this be set to nil or is it automatically

Re: [VM] imap-fcc and gmail

2012-06-10 Thread Uday Reddy
emacs user writes: so trying IMAP-FCC: [Gmail]/Sent Mail doesn't work for me, unfortunately, not sure what I am doing wrong. Apparently there was a bug in the code for IMAP-FCC, which I have now fixed. Cheers, Uday

Re: [VM] automatic display of mime messages

2012-06-04 Thread Uday Reddy
lsmit...@hare.demon.co.uk writes: I've read read the vm info pages but I still can't get automatic display of mine encoded messages to work. Please could someone point out out what I'm doing wrong? It is a good idea *not* to customize variables unless you really need to. All the settings you

Re: [VM] Newbie emacs/imap question

2012-06-04 Thread Uday Reddy
blueman writes: From what I have seen, most of the vm-imap documentation seems to be the reverse setup where people want to use vm/imap as a client to read their google email from a google (or other remote) server. Instead, I want to use a remote non-vm mail reader to read my vm mail remotely

Re: [VM] automatic display of mime messages

2012-06-04 Thread Uday Reddy
lsmit...@hare.demon.co.uk writes: Actually what I want is for vm to automatically display mime internally, just as if I had hit enter on the attachment. Is that possible? Yes it is possible. The default settings already do that. If it is not working for you, it is because something is

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