8:36 a.m.
My apologies in advance if this is the wrong list to use. I've been
using XEmacs for a couple of years and am finally trying to transition
to an Emacs mailer of some kind. Since I do everything over IMAP, my
only options appear to be GNUS and Wanderlust
(http://www.gohome.org/wl/). Wanderlust isn't part of the standard
packages, which is why I was hesitant to post on this list about it.
Has anyone had any luck getting Wanderlust to work under recent XEmacs
incarnations? If so, did you have to do anything special?
I get to the folder summary just fine, but it hangs when checking for
IMAP mail, and yields a number of warnings along the lines of:
(1) (error/warning) Error in process filter: (error Autoloading failed
to define function elmo-field-body)
I have very verbose stack traces if anyone would care to try and
duplicate my problem, but will hold off spamming the group with them
until I find out if I should even try getting Wanderlust to work or not.
:)
Thanks!
-j
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Joel Stanley * jstanley(a)cs.uiuc.edu
5:42 p.m.
>>>> Joel Stanley writes:
Since I do everything over IMAP, my only options appear to be GNUS
and Wanderlust (http://www.gohome.org/wl/).
Doesn't VM support IMAP?
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David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA
5:58 p.m.
>>>> "DM" == David Masterson
<David.Masterson(a)synopsys.com> writes:
>>>> Joel Stanley writes:
> Since I do everything over IMAP, my only options appear to be GNUS
> and Wanderlust (http://www.gohome.org/wl/).
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.
Thanks,
-- Marco
DM> --
DM> David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com
DM> Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
DM> Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA
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10:08 p.m.
>>>> "Marco" == Marco Walther
<Marco.Walther(a)sun.com> writes:
>>>> "DM" == David Masterson
<David.Masterson(a)synopsys.com> writes:
>>>> Joel Stanley writes:
>> Since I do everything over IMAP, my only options appear to be GNUS
>> and Wanderlust (http://www.gohome.org/wl/).
DM> Doesn't VM support IMAP?
Marco> Not really. It can download your messages from the IMAP
Marco> server but it wants to keep them locally (unless something
Marco> has really changed lately). So the point of keeping your
Marco> mails on the IMAP server is somewhat lost.
Hi Marco!
xemacs-beta is a good start.
The basic question probably is whether the author or the xemacs-beta
team or a third party are interested in maintaining a wanderlust
XEmacs package.
At least that's what I would check when making a decision between
Gnus, VM, and Wanderlust.
An Oort Gnus XEmacs Pre-Release package has been available only days
after Oort Gnus was released, if that's a hint :-)
Adrian
Marco> Thanks,
Marco> -- Marco
DM> --
DM> David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com
DM> Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
DM> Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA
Marco> --
Marco>
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Adrian Aichner
mailto:adrianï¼ xemacs.org
http://www.xemacs.org/
2:43 a.m.
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.
It has been a long while since I used VM over imap (I use fetchmail
instead, dosen't cause XEmacs to pause) but I believe the
`vm-imap-auto-expunge-alist' allows you to keep the mail on the IMAP
server. I would test first before you irrevocably delete all your old
mail from the server.
Cheers,
Sean
5:02 a.m.
>>>> "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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5:25 a.m.
Marco Walther writes:
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
* ...
I see what you mean. Yes, I agree. VM basically treats imap like a pop
connection. It does not implement any of the special features of imap.
Cheers,
Sean
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