Robert Goldman <rpgold...@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 _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
