Re: [VM] Newbie emacs/imap question

[blueman]

blueman <address@hidden> writes:
>> No, there isn't a way to make the IMAP server into a client of local
>> folders.  You can however save individual messages into an IMAP folder
>> using `vm-save-message-to-imap-folder'.
>
> Can I assume it works on multiple (i.e., marked messages)?
oooops... it doesn't seem to work on multiple (marked messages) --
that's a shame
> Also, I wouldn't think it would be hard to use the code in
> vm-save-message-to-imap-folder to act on the entire folder either in a
> copy or move (i.e., copy then delete mode). I would imagine this would
> be helpful if people want to migrate (not synch) some folders back and forth.
>
>>
>>> 2. Is there a way to get the 'FCC' copy to go to an imap folder?
>>
>> Yes, `vm-imap-save-composition' does that.  Or, look up IMAP-FCC in a recent
>> version of the manual.
>
> I will look at that.
>
> One new question...
> 3. Has anybody written any wrapper functions that would 'unify' the
> treatment of local and IMAP folders so that the same function (and more
> importantly bindings) could be used independent of the folder type. I'm
> thinking in particular of functions like vm-visit-folder and various
> save/copy/delete functions.
>
> vm would then 'choose' the right version of the function based on the
> alreay known or given name of the folder. For example, if an unquoted
> ":" were disallowed from local folder names (which is probably mostly
> true in practice anyway on most filesystems), the presence of a colon
> would indicate whether you want to visit an imap or regular
> folder.
>
> To tell you the truth, it would be nice if this would work on virtual
> folders too where perhaps a user-defined symbol could be used to
> distinguish virtual folders.
>
> Personally, I find it difficult and inconvenient to keep track sometimes
> of what folder type is what and then to remember the right flavor of
> function to run on them...
>
>
>> Cheers,
>> Uday
> Thanks