On 20 Apr., 18:34, Uday Reddy <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/14/2011 8:53 AM, salome wrote: > > > I understand that this is not the preferred concept in VM but I still > > haven't found out what a good workflow would look like for handling e- > > mails that are not important enough to save to a subject-specific > > folder but which I still might want to read again after some time. How > > do other VM-users handle the situation? > > I think most of us leave the unimportant messages in the INBOX and clean > it up periodically > > > Of course I could imitate my former TB-workflow by saving all those e- > > mails to a localtrash-folder. This would be easy if I knew how to > > create a keybinding for saving to a /specific/ folder -- but I don't. > > What would the code have to look like? > > Actually, `s' (vm-save-message) does this job pretty well. You have to > type in theTrashfolder name the first time. But, later within the > session, VM will reuse that folder as the default place to save a message. > > If you are using IMAP, you can save to aTrashfolder on the IMAP server > in pretty much the same way. Use `vm-save-message-to-imap-folder' > instead of `vm-save-message', and specify the folder in the format > imap-account-name:Trash. > > If you do want to create a new key binding, then bind it to a new > function defined by something like this: > > (defvar vm-trash-folder "~/Mail/Trash") ; or a filename of your choice > > (defun vm-save-message-to-trash() > (interactive) > (vm-save-message vm-trash-folder)) > > Cheers, > Uday
Thanks -- this works fine! Best, Salome
