[Novalug] Emacs and vm

[Alvin Smith]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:02 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <
JECottrell3 at comcast.net> wrote:

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


This is not true of any email client.  All email clients must be configured
for use with your email account.


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


Not a very precise way to go about it.


>
>
> VM has historically used sendmail to inject mail into the system.


Not according to the documentation.


> 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.


I will 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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> > > > No virus found in this incoming message.
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> > > > Release
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Date: 5/2/2008 4:34 PM
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> > Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.23.9/1419 -
> > Release Date: 5/7/2008 7:46 AM
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