From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Re: Org mode and emacs email Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:16:51 -0400 Message-ID: <26108.1270059411@alphaville.usa.hp.com> References: <20100329112210.GA3814@wilbury.neustadt.demon.co.uk> <20100330160105.GA5420@wilbury.neustadt.demon.co.uk> <877hotrbor.fsf@gmail.com> <19378.13870.53283.779327@gazelle-32.local> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nx2UI-0006xK-4x for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:17:58 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59604 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nx2U4-0006rM-58 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:17:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nx2TG-0006Jd-Ey for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:16:56 -0400 Received: from g6t0186.atlanta.hp.com ([15.193.32.63]:12906) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nx2TG-0006JW-7a for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:16:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Robert Goldman of "Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:54:44 -0000." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Robert Goldman Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Robert Goldman wrote: > Manuel Hermenegildo 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