Re: [VM] trash

[Salome Södergran]

On 20 Apr., 18:34, Uday Reddy <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 4/14/2011 8:53 AM, salome wrote:
>
> > I understand that this is not the preferred concept in VM but I still
> > haven't found out what a good workflow would look like for handling e-
> > mails that are not important enough to save to a subject-specific
> > folder but which I still might want to read again after some time. How
> > do other VM-users handle the situation?
>
> I think most of us leave the unimportant messages in the INBOX and clean
> it up periodically
>
> > Of course I could imitate my former TB-workflow by saving all those e-
> > mails to a localtrash-folder. This would be easy if I knew how to
> > create a keybinding for saving to a /specific/ folder -- but I don't.
> > What would the code have to look like?
>
> Actually, `s' (vm-save-message) does this job pretty well.  You have to
> type in theTrashfolder name the first time.  But, later within the
> session, VM will reuse that folder as the default place to save a message.
>
> If you are using IMAP, you can save to aTrashfolder on the IMAP server
> in pretty much the same way.  Use `vm-save-message-to-imap-folder'
> instead of `vm-save-message', and specify the folder in the format
> imap-account-name:Trash.
>
> If you do want to create a new key binding, then bind it to a new
> function defined by something like this:
>
> (defvar vm-trash-folder "~/Mail/Trash") ; or a filename of your choice
>
> (defun vm-save-message-to-trash()
>      (interactive)
>      (vm-save-message vm-trash-folder))
>
> Cheers,
> Uday

Thanks -- this works fine!
Best, Salome