vm
- Description
- Entry points for VM
- Latest
- vm-8.3.0snapshot0.20241026.45603.tar (.sig), 2024-Oct-26, 3.88 MiB
- Maintainer
- <viewmail-info@nongnu.org>
- Website
- https://gitlab.com/emacs-vm/vm
- Browse ELPA's repository
- CGit or Gitweb
- Badge
- Manual
- vm
To install this package from Emacs, use package-install
or list-packages
.
Full description
The Emacs mail reader VM (a.k.a. ViewMail)
VM is a mail reader that runs under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It was written as an alternative to the Emacs RMAIL mail reader by Kyle Jones. VM is highly configurable and easy to use. It supports POP and IMAP mail servers, understands MIME, and handles mail folders in the standard UNIX mailbox format and the BABYL format used by the RMAIL mailer. It has a powerful virtual folder facility to facilitate searching as well as more advanced handling of multiple mail folders. This site exists to continue VM development community project.
Version Information
The VM versions 8.2.0 and up are designed to work with:
- XEmacs version 21.4 or higher, with MULE support
- Gnu Emacs versions 22 or higher
Installation
Read INSTALL and follow the instructions to compile and setup VM.
If you are new to VM, see example.vm for example configuration
settings (to be put into a ~/.vm
file). Read more in the VM manual
in _info_ format.
Bugs
The preferred way to report bugs is to file issues at https://gitlab.com/emacs-vm/vm/-/issues.
Alternatively, bugs can be reported report in VM using the VM function
M-x vm-submit-bug-report
However, this function currently sends an e-mail to a mailing list, which makes the issue hard to track, why the Gitlab issue tracker normally is a better option
Please include information about how to reproduce the problem. Please report any problems or bugs otherwise they cannot be fixed!
If you are not sure that the problem is a bug or that it could be of general importance to other users, you are welcome to discuss it on the mailing lists, see below.
Communication
Communication is done on four mailing list (VM is a mail reader after all):
- viewmail-info for general discussion of VM features and issues.
- viewmail-dev for VM development discussions. Developers and users interested in development are both welcome.
- viewmail-bugs
for reporting bugs in VM. Bugs reported using
vm-submit-bug-report
go here. - viewmail-maintainers aimed at at VM maintainers and packagers. The list is public but of limited interest outside its target audience.
See also
CONTRIBUTING for information on how to get involved in the project.
HISTORY for some notes on the history of the project.
Old versions
vm-8.3.0snapshot0.20241016.54722.tar.lz | 2024-Oct-16 | 656 KiB |
vm-8.3.0snapshot0.20240917.131054.tar.lz | 2024-Sep-17 | 656 KiB |
vm-8.3.0snapshot0.20240908.225110.tar.lz | 2024-Sep-09 | 656 KiB |
vm-8.3.0snapshot0.20240908.162052.tar.lz | 2024-Sep-08 | 656 KiB |
vm-8.3.0snapshot0.20240906.220213.tar.lz | 2024-Sep-07 | 659 KiB |
vm-8.3.0snapshot0.20240814.44941.tar.lz | 2024-Aug-14 | 659 KiB |
vm-8.3.0snapshot0.20240724.160938.tar.lz | 2024-Jul-24 | 659 KiB |
vm-8.3.0snapshot0.20240723.140435.tar.lz | 2024-Jul-23 | 660 KiB |
vm-8.3.0snapshot0.20240717.180037.tar.lz | 2024-Jul-17 | 661 KiB |
vm-8.3.0snapshot0.20240715.181352.tar.lz | 2024-Jul-16 | 661 KiB |
News
-*-Text-*- This file contains the list of changes up to revision 7.19, developed by Kyle Jones. For recent changes, please see the `NEWS' file. VM 7.19 released (29 September 2004) * New variables: + vm-stunnel-program-additional-configuration-file * added vm-mouse-send-url-to-safari to send URLs to Safari under Mac OS X. * added docstrings for vm-mime-reader-map-* commands. * normalized prefix key description layout in vm-mode docstring. * added some missing MIME commands to menu entries. * undo change in vm-preview-current-message that required vm-auto-decode-mime-messages to be non-nil along with vm-display-using-mime before creating the presentation copy of a message. It has the unexpected side-effect of breaking 'D' when vm-auto-decode-mime-messages is nil. VM 7.18 released (2 November 2003) * New variables: + vm-default-new-folder-line-ending-type * vm-mail-internal: use idle timers to run vm-update-composition-buffer-name instead of post command hooks * vm-decode-mime-layout: always delete a MIME object button after doing a type conversion. * vm-mail-send: bind coding-system-for-write to match the coding system of mail-archive-file-name (if set) so that mail-do-fcc writes to the file using the correct line endings. * vm-make-tempfile-name, vm-make-tempfile: accept optional second argument 'proposed-filename' which will be used if a file with that name do not exist in vm-tempfile-directory. If such a file exists, then a number and a dash will be prepended to the proposed filename and the number will be incremented until no such file exists. * don't use vm-menu-fsfemacs-image-menu unless vm-use-menus is non-nil. * vm-preview-current-message: require vm-auto-decode-mime-messages to be non-nil along with vm-display-using-mime before creating the presentation copy. This helps prevent selection of the presentation buffer when the user likely needs to do M-x recover-file. VM 7.17 released (6 July 2003) * New commands: + vm-create-imap-folder + vm-delete-imap-folder + vm-rename-imap-folder * vm-edit-message-end: try to positoin the cursor in the message window roughly where it was in the edit window. * vm-read-imap-folder-name: allow vm-imap-make-session to return nil without crashing. Also, bind vm-imap-ok-to-ask non-nil so that vm-imap-make-session will interactively prompt for a password. * added menu entry to Folder menu for vm-visit-imap-folder. * vm-imap-normalize-spec: convert auth method to * instead of the IMAP folder name. * vm-imap-get-message-flags: fixed flag retrieval so that it actually works now. * vm-handle-file-recovery-or-reversion: find an IMAP spec for the buffer so that the spec is passed to the 'vm' command instead of the buffer-file-name. This fixes a wrong-type-argument error under M-x recover-file when done on a IMAP cache folder. * tapestry.el: in tapestery-window-edges check for existence of face-width and face-height in addition to window-pixel-edges. * search for BASE64/QP encoder/decoder programs and set the encoder/decoder program variable based on what we find. * vm-mf-default-action: if object is convertible to a displayble type mention the conversion that will happen in the action string. VM 7.16 released (26 May 2003) * New commands: + vm-visit-imap-folder + vm-visit-imap-folder-other-window + vm-visit-imap-folder-other-frame + vm-save-message-to-imap-folder * New variables: + vm-imap-server-list * vm-primary-inbox can now be a POP or IMAP mailbox specification. * vm-mime-set-xxx-parameter: use the parameter name passed in instead of assuming the name is "charset". The only calls to this function passed in "charset" as the name, so this bug wasn't affecting anything. * vm-decode-mime-encoded-words: do charset conversion if needed. Forgot to add this back when vm-mime-charset-converter-alist was added. * vm-send-mail-and-exit -> vm-mail-send-and-exit in vm-user-agent definition. * vm-mail-send-and-exit: dropped first arg requirement since the ... ...