From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Announcing VM Mail Reader, version 8.1.1 Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 16:04:06 +0100 Organization: Janet Usenet Reading Service. Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291832043 12820 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 18:14:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:14:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 19:13:59 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQOWb-0002nW-Hk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:13:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57620 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQOWa-0002IK-Ii for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:13:56 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!feed2.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!times.reader.netnews.ja.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs.xemacs Original-Followup-To: gnu.emacs.vm.info Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: wallace.cs.bham.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: north.jnrs.ja.net 1274108656 13922 147.188.193.15 (17 May 2010 15:04:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@north.jnrs.ja.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 15:04:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu comp.emacs:99844 gnu.emacs.help:178220 comp.emacs.xemacs:82445 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75769 Archived-At: The VM Mail Reader version 8.1.1 has been released and is available for download from its Savannah home: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/viewmail For people that might not have heard of VM before, VM is one of the oldest mail readers developed for Emacs. Created by Kyle Jones starting in 1989, it is the main mail reader in XEmacs. It supports the old RMAIL mail format of Gnu Emacs, as well as the Unix mbox formats used by Thunderbird and other mail clients. So, it is quite normal and convenient to switch back and forth between VM and other mail clients. Kyle's involvement with VM tapered off around 2003 and VM got handed over to the user community for maintenance. Robert Widhopf-Fenk was in charge of it till around 2008, and Ulrich Mueller and I joined the team in late 2009. The 8.1.x series of VM incorporates about 2 years worth of development, possibly even more. The main new features include full support for IMAP servers, integration with Emacs/W3M for reading HTML email, inter-operation with Thunderbird, and clean support for international character sets (which took quite some time to get right). Active development of VM continues. VM is not included in Gnu Emacs distribution due to copyright issues, but it is included in XEmacs, Debian, Fedora and FreeBSD distributions. However, these distributions would be a couple of versions behind. Go to the VM home page for the latest stable releases. Cheers, Uday Reddy (VM Development Team)