[VM] Question about behavior of vm-save-message

[r***@gmail.com]

I was trying to experiment with some earlier advice (for which many thanks) that I should get Thunderbird-like behavior (hidden deleted messages) by using a virtual folder with the "undeleted" selector.

This seemed to work nicely, but then I had an oddity when I tried to save a message with "s" -- vm-save-message. When I did this in the original IMAP INBOX folder, I was prompted to save the message to an IMAP folder. This seemed to me to be the correct behavior.

However, when I was in the virtual folder, I got a very different behavior. I get prompted "Save in folder: ~/" which seems to me not to be The Right Thing.

Is this something I am doing wrong, or is it something that necessarily follows from the generalized nature of VM virtual folders?

Many thanks,
r

[Uday S Reddy]

Post by r***@gmail.com
However, when I was in the virtual folder, I got a very different
behavior. I get prompted "Save in folder: ~/" which seems to me not to be
The Right Thing.

Yes, you might regard that as a design flaw in VM. Since virtual folders
can combine multiple real folders, they don't inherit the features of any of
them. So, even when you make a virtual folder from a single parent folder,
nothing gets inherited. It irritated me a few times as well.

I will add it to the Wish List to do something about it.

Right now, there is a command called `vm-save-message-to-imap-folder' which
you can use. It doesn't have a default key binding. But, if you need it
often, you might create one for yourself.

Cheers,
Uday

[Robert Goldman]

Post by Uday S Reddy

Post by r***@gmail.com
However, when I was in the virtual folder, I got a very different
behavior. I get prompted "Save in folder: ~/" which seems to me not to be
The Right Thing.

Yes, you might regard that as a design flaw in VM. Since virtual folders
can combine multiple real folders, they don't inherit the features of any of
them. So, even when you make a virtual folder from a single parent folder,
nothing gets inherited. It irritated me a few times as well.
I will add it to the Wish List to do something about it.
Right now, there is a command called `vm-save-message-to-imap-folder' which
you can use. It doesn't have a default key binding. But, if you need it
often, you might create one for yourself.

Thank you very much. Since I *only* use IMAP folders, I can probably simply change the binding for "s" to vm-save-message-to-imap-folder....

Best,
R