Re: [VM] stunnel, folders, comment

Hi Dave, Sorry to see you getting frustrated. As I menioned in a previous post, I am out travelling but I am taking time off to write back because you seem to be stuck. If you are a new user of VM (which wasn't clear from your earlier posts), then I recommend that you follow the instrucitons on

Re: [VM] stunnel, folders, comment

Dave Webb , Dave Webb writes: > changing from emacs smtp and starttls to msmtp configured to use its own > start tls worked for me. That is great. Congratulations! > imap server still seems buggy, this week I'm switching to using the pop > server for gmail instead and things so far are working

Re: [VM] open buffer w/ no file

Dave Webb , Dave Webb writes: > i have primary-inbox as "~/Mail/inbox" and also set primary-inbox to > a imap-ssl:etc:etc:etc which is what I retrieve when opening the > inbox from buffer list and using the g key to initiate new mail > retrieval. That doesn't make sense, Dave. You can't possib

Re: [VM] Maildir support

I think we have enough functionality in VM to support maildir now. My problem is that I have never used maildir myself and don't know exactly what is involved. If Abhi and you can write a little document (a "blueprint" in Launchpad terminology) describing what needs to be implemented, that would

Re: [VM] smtp error

On 6/2/2011 7:38 PM, Dave Webb wrote: trying to use a smtp inbox for gmail. Things were going fine, but now when connecting and asking inbox to "g" get new mail, vm connects to smtp server, checks for mail, starts to download and then suddenly posts this error "vm-number-messages: Wrong type arg

Re: [VM] wrong type argument

On 5/16/2011 7:56 AM, Salome Södergran wrote: Hi! When I try to save and exit from a certain mail-folder I get the message: vm-stuff-thunderbird-status: Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p, 3.0 It happens with just this one folder, and started to do so only recently. What does thi

Re: [VM] sybillin warning messages at start

Damien Wetzel writes: > Im running vm 8.0.12 under xemacs 21.5 (beta31) \"ginger\" XEmacs > Lucid" under gentoo with xft and mule support. Hi Damien, I recommend upgrading to a more recent version of VM, say 8.1.1 that is on the public release. If you google vm mail or vm emacs our web si

Re: [VM] sybillin warning messages at start

Damien Wetzel writes: > by the way, do you think it's reasonable still using VM for reading > emails nowadays, wich email reader would you recommend as a replacement if > the answer is yes . :) Yup, VM is working quite fine under the present day's requirements. We are probably a couple of years

Re: [VM] accent issue with VM

On 10/5/2011 12:11 PM, dwet...@atanar.net wrote: i have a decoding issue with all email received encoded in multipart : Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary= in that case é becomes é is there a way to fix it ? Julian Bradfield recommends this setting: (setq process-coding

[VM] bbdb/vm-update-records-mode

I have been annoyed for a while that BBDB wasn't scanning already-seen messages for new addresses. Even the `bbdb/vm-force-create' command didn't work. After some searching, I tracked down the problem to the default value of the variable `bbdb/vm-update-records-mode', which was set to evaluate to

[VM] Marc Andreessen

This is perhaps historical trivia. While trawling through the vm.info archives, I ran into a post by Marc Andreessen, one of the founders of Netscape. I didn't know that he was a VM user. (I should have guessed of course. He was an undergrad at UIUC and a developer of Epoch, one of the Emacsen

[VM] IMAP message download fails sometimes

Sometimes, when a lot of IMAP messages need to get downloaded, the download fails in the middle with the warning message: Retrieval from udrimap:INBOX signaled: (vm-imap-protocol-error expected (BODY[] string) in FETCH response) As far as I can tell, there is no bug in the code. If the uncom

Re: [VM] Unreadable VM-mail folders

Dr. Rainer Woitok writes: > Greetings, > > does anybody have some pointers regarding the following problem? > > Environment: 1: vm 7.17 with XEmacs 21.4.19 on Solaris > 2: vm 7.17 with XEmacs 21.4.22 under Cygwin on Vista Are you sure you are using VM 7.17? It is very very old. T

Re: [VM] VM sending something other than text/plain?

On 11/30/2011 7:59 PM, Terry Jones wrote: Today I had a weird experience. Someone Cc'd on an email I sent with VM (8.2.0a) replied to me with a screenshot of the mail as he saw it in Gmail. Some parts of the mail body had purple text, some black. I'd composed the mail after pasting text in from

Re: [VM] VM sending something other than text/plain?

On 11/30/2011 7:59 PM, Terry Jones wrote: Today I had a weird experience. Someone Cc'd on an email I sent with VM (8.2.0a) replied to me with a screenshot of the mail as he saw it in Gmail. Some parts of the mail body had purple text, some black. I'd composed the mail after pasting text in from

[VM] Don't use the mailbox as an address book

Can I also gently remind everybody that it is a bad practice to use your mailbox as an address book? If you try to locate an old message from somebody in your mailbox and do a `reply' instead of composing a new message, your message gets tagged as a response to an old message, possibly a huge thre

[VM] Virtual folders of threads

In the trunk of VM (revision 1273) I have added a new command `V T' (`vm-create-virtual-folder-of-threads') for creating virtual folders of threads instead of individual messages. For example, to create a virtual folder of all threads that have messages written by you, you can use V T ou

Re: [VM] Finding IMAP mailboxes that have new/unread mail

> I am trying to use VM for my daily e-mail handling, which mostly involves > an IMAP account with > 100 mailboxes. Messages are sorted into those > mailboxes by the server, so any mailbox is likely to contain new mail at > any time. Is there any way to make VM tell me which mailboxes have new

Re: [VM] Finding IMAP mailboxes that have new/unread mail

Konrad Hinsen writes: > That sounds like a very good solution for me, because it would allow > me to group my folders into more and less important ones. Excellent. Virtual folders are very powerful, but not everybody thought about how it can help them. > Well, I am already lost. I tried the fol

Re: [VM] messages with invalid UIDs

Uday Reddy writes: > Once they are labelled "stale", they won't get expunged. If you want to > expunge them, you will need to delete them manually and expunge them. But, > as I said, if the stale copies are all that you have, then your folder is an > "inconsistent" state. The best way to fix it

Re: [VM] thread sorting

An interesting question on the Gnus mailing list: On 5/3/2011 8:16 AM, Peter Münster wrote: Hello, How can I sort threads by date, so that the last message (by date) of a thread will be always at the bottom of the thread and instead of sorting threads by the root, I would like to sort them by t

Re: [VM] How to export a (merged) thread?

On 8/10/2011 4:15 PM, XeCycle wrote: I want to CC a whole thread to somewhere else, is there a way to export the merged thread to one text file? It can be like this: , | Subject: some title | From: the_first_...@some-addr.com | | He/She said something | | Subject: Re: some title | From: the

[VM] [Bug 913005] [NEW] Problem opening a composition buffer

sujith_m82 writes: > Public bug reported: > > I just installed 8.2.0b-gnu23 and there seems to be a problem with > opening a mail composition buffer. When firing up VM for the first time > and then hitting 'm' (which is bound to vm-mail), this error message is > seen: > > vm-mail: Symbol's funct

Re: [VM] vm 8.1.1 - marking all unread messages read?

Thanks for the response, John. John Hein wrote: > How about M A like you did, then: > M N . The `.' key binding is recent. It may not be there in VM 8.1.1. >or > M N a read[1] This should work if `a' is bound to the function named below. >or > M N M-x vm-set-message-attribu

Re: [VM] searching in mime encoded email

Ulrich Mueller writes: > I think that Julian is right here. Folders don't have any specific > character encoding, they are simply a stream of bytes. (In terms of > coding systems, it's "raw-text".) Character sets come into play on the > level of individual messages, and they're specified by the me

Re: [VM] searching in mime encoded email

John Hein writes: > Will it always be the case that base64 is used instead of raw binary? > No - some day raw binary may flow freely over email channels. And I > agree vm should be prepared for it. The biggest issue might be > migrating away from the default mbox format for local folders > (sepa

[VM] ANNOUNCEMENT: VM 8.1.2 released

VM 8.1.2 Mainly a bug fix release fixing various compatibility issues. In particular, this version is "forward-compatible", i.e., it can interoperate with future releases of VM. All users of VM 8.1.1 are advised to upgrade to VM 8.1.2 before moving on to 8.2.0. The users of 8.2.0 prereleases need

Re: [VM] returning from virtual folders

Uday Reddy writes: > > I could perhaps put a message on the stack so that vm-goto-message-last-seen > finds it. vm-goto-message-last-seen already works for the new behaviour. Cheers, Uday

Re: [VM] bug on running vm-visit-imap-folder?

Robert Marshall wrote: > On Sat, 26 May 2012, Uday usr.vm.ro...@gmail.com wrote: >> If you attempt to tab-complete the folder name, then VM has to ask the >> server for the list of folders. So, it needs the password. > > I think the problem is that I'm attempting to complete on the *server* >

Re: [VM] integrating google calendar invitation

On 5/24/2012 7:59 PM, Damien Wetzel wrote: Hello, is there a way to manage google calendar invitation in VM ? Many thanks, Please check the Google Groups archive for some tips I wrote in the past. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/gnu.emacs.vm.info/calendar

[VM] stunnel complains (Update OpenSSL shared libraries)

There seems to have been an update of stunnel, which is breaking VM's automatic configuration code. It produced junk like this in the IMAP process buffer: Starting IMAP over SSL session Wed May 30 12:20:38 2012 -- connecting to imap.gmail.com:993 Clients allowed=125 stunnel 4.53

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

blueman writes: > I want to configure vm so instead of starting by loading > vm-primary-inbox and loading vm-spool-files, instead it starts with a > designated imap folder on my imap server. Basically, I would like to > treat my inbox as being on my imap server rather than the documented > behavio

Re: [VM] Specifying coding system for Imap.cache files

blueman writes: > When running vm on a Windows machine, I typically add ( "^C:/myhome/mail/" > 'raw-text-unix) to the alist file-coding-system-alist since I want to keep > all my mail files in the unix file system coding without the annoying > carriage returns (^M) at the end of each line. > > Ho

Re: [VM] Beginner VM questions

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 mentio

Re: [VM] Email dangers portrayed in media

Tim Cross writes: > I find it best to decide either top post or bottom post, depending ont > he context. I'm not convinced there is a one fit for all occasions. > For a lot of my work email, top posting seems more suitable. For > longer dicscussion threads involving multiple recipients, bottom > p

[VM] Cygwin environment for w3m

Emacs-w3m is setting the CYGWIN environment variable to "binmode tty". Unfortunately, the tty option is obsolete. It generates a warning message like: "tty" option detected in CYGWIN environment variable. CYGWIN=tty is no longer supported. Please remove it from your CYGWIN environment v

[VM] [emacs-w3m:11924] Re: Cygwin environment for w3m

Greetings, Katsumi-san! It has been a long time since we have seen you on the VM forum! > Thanks for the info. But in my Emacs built on Cygwin[1], I've > never seen the value of system-type is windows-nt; that is just > cygwin. So, I've never had a chance the env var CYGWIN is set > (actually C

[VM] emacs-w3m on Emacs 24

I have this problem with Emacs 24. If I run VM, along with emacs-w3m as the text/html viewer, then any file I visit from then on seems to get loaded in "literally", i.e., non-ASCII characters appear as octets and DOS line-endings appear as ^M's. The variable `enable-multibyte-characters' is nil

[VM] Happy holidays

I will be offline over the Christmas & New Year, visiting family abroad. Have a happy holiday season! Cheers, Uday

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

On 1/19/2013 11:42 AM, Johan Vromans wrote: 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.MM, and the INBOX I work with is a virtual folder consisting of the current INBOX, and the old INBOXes of the pas

Re: [VM] Help starting up with IMAP

Robert P. Goldman writes: > However, I still don't understand how to get myself to the IMAP folders to > start up, instead of ~/INBOX, vm-primary-inbox. The View Mail Quick Start page tells you what to do: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ViewMailQuickStart and the VM manual explains things in mo

Re: [VM] VM BAD Command Argument Error. 11

Yeah, VM seems to be ignoring the fact that this IMAP server can't store custom flags. I will fix it, soon I hope. By the way, vm-visit-imap-folder is the right thing to use. No need to switch to spool files. Cheers, Uday John Stoffel writes: > VM STORE 460 +FLAGS.SILENT (filed) > VM

Re: [VM] VM BAD Command Argument Error. 11

John Stoffel writes: > I'm still using vm-visit-imap-folder from 8.2.0b inside 23.1.1 on > x86_64 CentOS to read my eamil from Microsoft Exchange (probably 2010, > not sure). But right now I occasionally run into problems where I > can't seem to get new email. Looking the saved trace log I see:

Re: [VM] VM BAD Command Argument Error. 11

Sorry, John. You haven't yet answere my question: > All that I can do is to make VM resilient so that it carries on regardless > of the error messages. So, what happens after these error messages arise? > Does VM break in some way? Mind you that I can't reproduce this behaviour because I don't

Re: [VM] VM and message-mode

Robert Goldman writes: > I note that the VM manual states that it uses mail-mode, rather than > message-mode for composing email. Not exactly. When you use VM, you get to use what you might call vm-mail-mode, which is built on top of mail-mode. To "use" message-mode with VM, VM has to be modifi

Re: [VM] VM and message-mode

Robert Goldman writes: > Question: should one do something different to get a vm-ified mail mode? Or > should the VM community offer its own value for mail-user-agent that would be > vm-mail-user-agent? Yes, you need to set mail-user-agent to 'vm-user-agent. Cheers, Uday

Re: [VM] Question about behavior of vm-save-message

rpgold...@gmail.com writes: > However, when I was in the virtual folder, I got a very different > behavior. I get prompted "Save in folder: ~/" which seems to me not to be > The Right Thing. Yes, you might regard that as a design flaw in VM. Since virtual folders can combine multiple real folde

Re: [VM] Exchange 2010 IMAP4 & storing "filed"

Kyle Farrell writes: > Attempting to store any flag the server doesn't recognize is causing > none of the flags to be stored. I would guess the right thing for VM > to do would be only attempt to store flags that are explicitly > recognized by the server. I don't think you meant that. The "righ

Re: [VM] Exchange 2010 IMAP4 & storing "filed"

John Stoffel writes: > which tells me that MS doesn't want to support extra flags. That is not the point. To repeat what I wrote to you several months ago: The IMAP standard (RFC 3501) says: 59) It is not an error for the client to store a flag that is not in the PERMANENTFLAGS lis

Re: [VM] Exchange 2010 IMAP4 & storing "filed"

Kyle Farrell writes: > I was wondering why my deleted messages where getting cleared, then I > realized what was happening: I'd read, reply, file, and delete my > mail. Messages are marked "\deleted" and "filed" (or another imap > label Exchange doesn't recognize such as "junk"). Since Exchange

Re: [VM] Exchange 2010 IMAP4 & storing "filed"

John Stoffel writes: > Sure, and someday pigs will fly as MS ships a perfectly conformant > IMAP server implementation. Perhaps. But, if the users don't complain, you will ensure that they will never fix things. > Quick question though, how is the best way to force VM to re-read > vm-imap.el

Re: [VM] N Stale messages are ignored

Uday Reddy writes: > If you haven't seen anthing like this, then you should assume that your > cache folder is corrupted and regenerate it. To delete the cache folder, do > `M-x buffer-menu' and find the entry corresponding to the damaged folder. > The entry should have the full path name of the

Re: [VM] long format IMAP folder names

Joe Malcolm writes: > OK, thank you. Is this the syntax that would be used to save a message > from a local folder to an imap folder? If not, is this possible? The long format is what we need to use inside Lisp code or customisations. This was Kyle Jones's original design. I added a front-end so

Re: [VM] Getting VM into emacs without superuser: emacs package manager? LinuxBrew?

Diagon writes: > > Hi all. I'm trying to figure out how to get VM into my emacs (ver.24) on a > machine where I don't have superuser status. I'm am trying two tracks: > > (1) I installed emacs using linuxbrew, and so am trying to figure out how to > create/commit a formula: > https://github.co

Re: [VM] VM does not work with most recent emacs versions?

emacs user writes: > hi all, I reported this as bugs on launchpad a couple of times: vm > does not seem to work for me with 24.4 and 24.5, only with 24.3. Has > anyone else seen this problem? cheers, E Sorry, I didn't know. I am not sure why Launchpad has stopped sending me email alerts. I am s

Re: [VM] VM does not work with most recent emacs versions?

There seems to be a problem with vm-summary-faces. I get loads of compiler warnings on Emacs 24.3 onwards. We can't be sure that everything works until I wade through all of them. Cheers, Uday > On 2015-08-23 at 23:56:05 -0400, emacs user wrote: > > > hi all, I reported this as bugs on launch

Re: [VM] Time to move to Mutt?

j...@stoffel.org writes: > After way too many years to mention, I'm starting to think that > viewmail is a dead project. I can't do elisp programming, so it's > probably time to move to mutt as my CLI based mail reader. CLI = command line interface? I agree it is unlikely that VM will last long

Re: [VM] Time to move to Mutt?

j...@stoffel.org writes: > Uday> We could integrate the name space so that we could use one set of key > Uday> bindings. But would you really want to type something like > > Uday> s imap://myaccount@thatserver/folder > > God no! But maybe we could do s/S for regular/IMAP save? And v/V > for vi

Re: [VM] Time to move to Mutt?

John Stoffel writes: > > And the other issue I notice is that when I do 'L' > (vm-list-imap-folders) in VM to view my > various folders to see which have new email on my server (based on > dovecot) I seem to be getting lots of new emails marked SEEN, so I > don't always notice when I actually ha

[VM] Re: Coloring quotes

Göran Uddeborg writes: > I've seen this happen occasionally with emacs 23 and an old vm 8.1.1. > Most of the time it works, though. > > I haven't noticed it in the emacs 21/vm trunk environment. I have the same recollection that it used to work fine with older versions of Emacs. The most likely

Re: [VM] strange imap error

emacs user writes: > Starting IMAP over SSL session Mon Mar 21 16:31:07 2011 > -- connecting to imap.server.name:993 > * OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready. > -- connected for movemail > VM CAPABILITY > > Process IMAP over SSL finished Yeah, that does look like a gnutls problem. I

Re: [VM] Re: Coloring quotes

I have never got that error, even though I constantly don't get coloring on the firist viewing of a message. I will try to see what is giving the error. But meanwhile you can help by find something that is reasonably repeatable, and then turning on debug-on-error to get a backtrace. If the error

Re: [VM] Re: Strange MIME handling

I think I have figured it out. It was a bit of clever coding that has come back to bite us. The same function is being used to display the application/octet-stream button, and the action that fires when click mouse-2 on it. In the case that I ran into, the action was getting fired instead of the

Re: [VM] How to view HTML mail?

Skip Montanaro writes: > How do I set up VM to properly display HTML mail messages (or hand them off > to something which can)? I'm running VM 8.1.93a with GNU Emacs 23.1.1 on > Mac OS X. I see a variable, Vm Mime Text/Html Handler, which is set to > auto-select, but when I attempt to view an H

Re: [VM] How to view HTML mail?

s...@pobox.com writes: > Here's the message: > > Inline text/html by nil display failed: (error "No handler for internal > display of text/html") This seems basically ok. It is arising because your options say that text/html should be displayed internally, but you haven't installed a handler

Re: [VM] How to view HTML mail?

Skip Montanaro writes: > Is there a way to get it to include URLs at the bottom of the displayed > page as footnotes the way Lynx does? I looked through the w3m > man page and online manual and all its options but nothing jumped > out at me. I don't think emacs-w3m has a way to generate the foot

Re: [VM] How to view HTML mail?

Skip Montanaro writes: > I must be missing something, perhaps some other bit of > customization? Looks like you don't have emacs-w3m working. Cab you double check all the steps in the EmacsWiki page once again, especially the last step? Cheers, Uday

Re: [VM] vm-save-message-hook?

On 4/27/2011 10:28 PM, Robert Adesam wrote: Hi all, I am using VM 8.1.1 and Orgmode 7.01. I would like to write a custom trigger when saving a message in VM, looking around I could not find a vm-save-message-hook or similar. So would I have redefine the vm-save-message function all together? Any

Re: [VM] Announcement: 8.2.0a (alpha testing) release

r...@knighten.org writes: > I downloaded vm-8.2.0a.tgz and untarred it without issue, but the directory > vm-8.2.0a and everything in it were owned by 1004:513. After fixing that I > discovered that the configure file could not be executed. I solved that by > using "sh ~/configure". I have no

Re: [VM] Announcement: 8.2.0a (alpha testing) release

r...@knighten.org writes: > > Note that you don't need to do `make install' to use VM. The INSTALL file > > gives you instructions on how to use it directly from the directory where > > you build VM. > > True but I took your note seriously; Fair enough. The reason I suggested using VM from

Re: [VM] Announcement: 8.2.0a (alpha testing) release

Ulrich Mueller writes: > However, I'm more concerned about the file mode bits: Almost all files > in the tarball have mode 0777, i.e. are executable and world-writable. > This wasn't the case for the 8.1.1 release. Yeah, I noticed it too. I had a disk crash since the last release and have been r

Re: [VM] vm-postponed-value is nil

Dave Webb writes: > trying to get vm running on a windows7 box w/ emacs23.3.1, trying to load > vm-mode i get the following emacs-lisp error: > >  Symbol's value as variable is void: vm-postponed-folder > > from past fiddling, i know that this is often missing quote marks or parens, > but I can'

Re: [VM] Announcement: 8.2.0a (alpha testing) release

I will be out travelling for a couple of weeks. The 8.2.0a release has had over 30 downloads so far and no serious problems reported. It seems to be stable. Cheers, Uday