From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Org mode and emacs email
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:16:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26108.1270059411@alphaville.usa.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> of "Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:54:44 -0000." <loom.20100331T195210-307@post.gmane.org>
Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> wrote:
> Manuel Hermenegildo <herme <at> fi.upm.es> writes:
>
> >
> >
> > I have to say in VM's defense that it is working very well for me (and
> > has supported IMAP for a very long time)
>
> Is this really true? In my days of using VM --- I eventually gave it up for
> Thunderbird --- VM never had true IMAP support that could interact with folders
> on the server. All it did was use the IMAP protocol to populate its local mail
> directory. This isn't really full IMAP support, and it's not really adequate if
> you want to get at your email from multiple different devices (hence my move to
> Thunderbird).
>
> Has this changed? I used VM for a long time, and wouldn't mind going back to
> it, if it could really talk to an IMAP server properly. I don't see how the
> architecture could be fixed to make that possible, though.
>
>
From the VM manual:
,----
| IMAP Folders
|
| VM's traditional mode of operation is to treat all remote mail sources
| as spool files, pulling all mail down from remote sources into local
| folders and deleting the remote copies. But sometimes it is more
| convenient to treat a remote mail source as a folder instead of a spool
| file, manipulating the remote source as if it were a folder instead of
| just a holding area for incoming messages.
|
| The command vm-visit-imap-folder allows you to visit a IMAP mailbox as
| if it were a folder. When you visit a IMAP folder, VM will download
| copies of the messages that it finds there for you to read. If you
| delete and expunge messages in the local copy of the folder, the
| corresponding messages on the IMAP server will be removed when you save
| the changes with vm-save-folder.
|
| Message attributes (new, replied, filed, etc.) are stored on the IMAP
| server and are also cached locally. Labels cannot be stored on the IMAP
| server but you can use them lcoally.
|
| In order for VM to know about IMAP servers that you can access, you must
| declare them by setting the variable vm-imap-server-list. The variable's
| value should be a list of the form:
|
| (IMAPDROP IMAPDROP ...)
|
| IMAPDROP is a IMAP maildrop specification in the same format used by
| vm-spool-files.
|
| For example:
|
| (setq vm-imap-server-list '(
| "imap-ssl:mail.foocorp.com:993:inbox:login:becky:*"
| "imap:crickle.lex.ky.us:143:inbox:login:becky:*" ) )
|
| The mailbox (`inbox' in the example) is ignored; when when
| vm-visit-imap-folder asks for a folder name you can enter any folder
| that is acessible to you on the IMAP server.
`----
HTH,
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-31 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-29 11:22 Org mode and emacs email Simon Brown
2010-03-29 12:45 ` Richard Riley
2010-03-29 13:49 ` Simon Brown
2010-03-29 13:56 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-03-30 16:09 ` Richard Riley
2010-03-29 16:14 ` Henri-Paul Indiogine
2010-03-30 14:36 ` Scott Brim
2010-03-30 16:01 ` Simon Brown
2010-03-30 16:55 ` Eric Schulte
2010-03-30 17:34 ` Manuel Hermenegildo
2010-03-30 19:53 ` Leo
2010-03-31 19:09 ` Gary
2010-04-01 7:28 ` peter.frings
2010-04-01 14:15 ` Eric Schulte
2010-04-01 14:32 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2010-04-01 14:46 ` Henri-Paul Indiogine
2010-04-01 16:51 ` Daniel Goldin
2010-03-31 17:54 ` Robert Goldman
2010-03-31 18:16 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
[not found] ` <4BB39872.3030806@sift.info>
2010-03-31 18:56 ` Nick Dokos
2010-04-09 11:30 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-03-30 17:40 ` Dan Davison
2010-03-30 18:23 ` Henri-Paul Indiogine
2010-03-30 18:34 ` Dan Davison
2010-03-31 0:34 ` Geralt
2010-03-31 1:15 ` [OT] " Dan Davison
2010-03-31 1:38 ` Jonathan Creekmore
2010-03-31 9:29 ` Geralt
2010-03-31 8:23 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2010-03-31 14:12 ` Eric Schulte
2010-03-31 17:37 ` Henri-Paul Indiogine
2010-04-08 21:13 ` Eraldo Helal
2010-03-30 16:57 ` Richard Riley
2010-03-30 17:53 ` Gary
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