[Novalug] Emacs and vm

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

You don't need to configure it at all. It works Just Fine with Default 
Options.

Comment every line in your dot-files and uncomment bit by bit to get 
them to work.

VM has historically used sendmail to inject mail into the system. You 
can either either write a wrapper script to invoke exim's mail injection 
program. I believe VM also speaks SMTP to an outgoing mail relay, much 
the same way that Eudora, Thunderbird, and other similar clients do.

VM works Just Fine, but like anything else, you have to figure it out.

JIM

Alvin Smith wrote:
> I want to know if there is someone who really understands how to
> configure vm, and also understands what can go wrong especially when
> it comes to sending mail.
>
> Have there been changes to to way emacs is configured in the last few
> version updates?
>
> Our attempt to transfer the dot emacs file from one system to another
> has failed.  The "incoming" portion of the file is being read.  We
> know this because we are receiving email from the ISP.  But the
> outgoing portion that worked before seems to be ignored and instead of
> using vm's mechanism for dealing with smtp, it seems to be using what
> I believe to be exim which fails because it has not been configured at
> all for any purpose.
>
> If I could see your working dot emacs file's section where you have
> configured your outgoing mail, that might help as well.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Alvin
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:22 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd
> <JECottrell3 at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> I have used VM for email quite a bit. In fact, I used to work with Kyle. I
>> like it.
>>
>>  The only problem is when mailboxes grow large. I am not sure whether things
>> get worse linearly or quadratically, but it's all interpreted, and I'm not
>> sure whether elisp does qsorts or what.
>>
>>  What is your real question? What do you really want to know?
>>
>>  JIM
>>
>>  Alvin Smith wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>
>>> Is anyone in this group currently using Emacs and vm for email?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -- Alvin
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