[VM] trash

[Uday Reddy]

I understand that this is not the preferred concept in VM but I still
haven't found out what a good workflow would look like for handling e-
mails that are not important enough to save to a subject-specific
folder but which I still might want to read again after some time. How
do other VM-users handle the situation?

I think most of us leave the unimportant messages in the INBOX and clean
it up periodically

Of course I could imitate my former TB-workflow by saving all those e-
mails to a local trash-folder. This would be easy if I knew how to
create a keybinding for saving to a /specific/ folder -- but I don't.
What would the code have to look like?

Actually, `s' (vm-save-message) does this job pretty well. You have to
type in the Trash folder name the first time. But, later within the
session, VM will reuse that folder as the default place to save a message.

If you are using IMAP, you can save to a Trash folder on the IMAP server
in pretty much the same way. Use `vm-save-message-to-imap-folder'
instead of `vm-save-message', and specify the folder in the format
imap-account-name:Trash.

If you do want to create a new key binding, then bind it to a new
function defined by something like this:

(defvar vm-trash-folder "~/Mail/Trash") ; or a filename of your choice

(defun vm-save-message-to-trash ()
(interactive)
(vm-save-message vm-trash-folder))

Cheers,
Uday

[Salome Södergran]

Post by Uday Reddy

I understand that this is not the preferred concept in VM but I still
haven't found out what a good workflow would look like for handling e-
mails that are not important enough to save to a subject-specific
folder but which I still might want to read again after some time. How
do other VM-users handle the situation?

I think most of us leave the unimportant messages in the INBOX and clean
it up periodically

Of course I could imitate my former TB-workflow by saving all those e-
mails to a localtrash-folder. This would be easy if I knew how to
create a keybinding for saving to a /specific/ folder -- but I don't.
What would the code have to look like?

Actually, `s' (vm-save-message) does this job pretty well.  You have to
type in theTrashfolder name the first time.  But, later within the
session, VM will reuse that folder as the default place to save a message.
If you are using IMAP, you can save to aTrashfolder on the IMAP server
in pretty much the same way.  Use `vm-save-message-to-imap-folder'
instead of `vm-save-message', and specify the folder in the format
imap-account-name:Trash.
If you do want to create a new key binding, then bind it to a new
(defvar vm-trash-folder "~/Mail/Trash") ; or a filename of your choice
(defun vm-save-message-to-trash()
     (interactive)
     (vm-save-message vm-trash-folder))
Cheers,
Uday

Thanks -- this works fine!
Best, Salome

[salome]

Hi! I'm still very new to VM and I appreciate it's functionality and
customizability more and more. But I still get stuck at various points
with very newbie-problems. Here's one.

In Thunderbird, which was my e-mail-program before switching to VM, I
used to keep my inbox lean, sending to trash all e-mails that didn't
require an action and for which there was no need to archive. Whenever
I had to go back to one of those e-mails, which was the case every now
and then, they were easily accessible in the trash-folder.