Re: [VM] Info node External Messages

2012-04-08 Thread Uday Reddy
Alan Wehmann writes: I can emphasize the following conclusions from this evidence: 1) Thunderbird is synchronizing a file on my computer's hard drive, matching the contents of the IMAP inbox folder. Yes, indeed, it does! VM's IMAP folders work the same way too. But what shape the cache

Re: [VM] Info node External Messages

2012-04-08 Thread Uday Reddy
moritzmaxei...@googlemail.com writes: So, evidence is practically useless! this is not a universal conclusion. If it were, then reverse engineering closed source software would be impossible, because there you do exaxtly that: You try to look for evidence (either by sniffing,

Re: [VM] Info node External Messages

2012-04-07 Thread Alan Wehmann
writes: To: awehm...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [VM] Info node External Messages Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 23:52:55 +0100 From: Uday Reddy usr.vm.ro...@gmail.com Alan Wehmann writes: For me there is a mode of operation where I like to download selected IMAP messages into Local

Re: [VM] Info node External Messages

2012-04-07 Thread Uday Reddy
Alan Wehmann writes: One reason to show how it starts off is to illustrate that the first line is not recognized by the value of vm-leading-message-separator-regexp-From_ You can't read Thunderbird's IMAP folders in VM, only the Local Folders. (In fact, you can see from the size of the file

Re: [VM] Info node External Messages

2012-04-07 Thread Alan Wehmann
to me rather odd to ask me if I want to delete a large message if I haven't even looked at it (with VM). Cheers, Alan Uday Reddy writes: To: alan.wehm...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [VM] Info node External Messages Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 21:26:22 +0100 From: Uday Reddy usr.vm.ro...@gmail.com

Re: [VM] Info node External Messages

2012-04-06 Thread Uday Reddy
Alan Wehmann writes: For me there is a mode of operation where I like to download selected IMAP messages into Local Folders have a local copy. As I indicated in one of my messages, I need to use the web interface to the IMAP server to clean out the IMAP server inbox. I would use the web

Re: [VM] Info node External Messages

2012-04-05 Thread Uday Reddy
Alan Wehmann writes: I tried out some of what is described in Info node External Messages yesterday. Hi Alan, I can't tell what you tried from this info node, but the rest of your message indicates to me that you were using Local Folders. External messages are only available for IMAP

Re: [VM] Info node External Messages

2012-04-05 Thread Uday Reddy
Alan Wehmann writes: IMAP server at work. Since I am used to how Thunderbird implements its size limitations I was surprised to find myself being asked yes or no for each over-sized message. The doc-string for `vm-imap-max-message-size' says that the yes/no question is asked only when

Re: [VM] Info node External Messages

2012-04-05 Thread Uday Reddy
Alan Wehmann writes: vm-spool-files '(imap:127.0.0.1:143:inbox:login:*:*) I used the command vm to initiate the downloading of messages from the IMAP server. Right, you have used an IMAP spool file to download messages into a local folder, the vm-primary-inbox. So, the external message

Re: [VM] Info node External Messages

2012-04-05 Thread Alan Wehmann
On 4/5/2012 5:42 PM, Uday Reddy wrote: Alan Wehmann writes: vm-spool-files '(imap:127.0.0.1:143:inbox:login:*:*) I used the command vm to initiate the downloading of messages from the IMAP server. Right, you have used an IMAP spool file to download messages into a local folder, the