[Novalug] Emacs and vm

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

Good Point. It works by default on a Local Mailbox. You have to 
configure POP access explicitly.

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