Re: Wanderlust on XEmacsen >= 21.4.x?
>>>> "SM" == Sean MacLennan
<seanm(a)seanm.ca> writes:
SM> Marco Walther writes:
DM> Doesn't VM support IMAP?
>
> Not really. It can download your messages from the IMAP server but it
> wants to keep them locally (unless something has really changed
> lately). So the point of keeping your mails on the IMAP server is
> somewhat lost.
SM> It has been a long while since I used VM over imap (I use fetchmail
SM> instead, dosen't cause XEmacs to pause) but I believe the
Same here;-) I'm using VM behind a fetchmail/procmail setup. The
pausing was one problem but I also wanted to generate HTML archives
for a couple of mailing lists etc.
SM> `vm-imap-auto-expunge-alist' allows you to keep the mail on the IMAP
SM> server. I would test first before you irrevocably delete all your old
Yes, I believe there is something like that. But that's still not how
IMAP is indended to work. VM can fetch your emails, it can also leave
them on the IMAP server but I don't think, it can
* really work with emails on the IMAP server (in terms of the VM
attributes etc)
* create and use different folders on the IMAP server
* ...
Thanks,
-- Marco
SM> mail from the server.
SM> Cheers,
SM> Sean
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