VM Frequently Asked Questions

1. About VM and this document

• 1.1. What is VM?
• 1.2. What is the most current version of VM?
• 1.3. Where can I get the most current version of VM?
• 1.4. About the FAQ
• 1.5. Where to find more information about VM

2. Troubleshooting

• 2.1. All I can see is the headers of the message!
• 2.2. Why does mailcrypt fail under VM with an invalid-function error?
• 2.3. I'm using TM and tm-vm and I'm having MIME problems.
• 2.4. I can't run VM under GNU Emacs 20!
• 2.5. I can't save my changes because my folders are being modified on disk.
• 2.6. I found a bug in VM -or- How do I do (something) in VM?

3. Settings

• 3.1. VM configuration file
• 3.2. Can I set the "From:" address and the "Reply-to:" address?
• 3.3. How do I make the Read and Send Mail from the menu use VM?
• 3.4. How can I prevent VM from modifying my window configuration?
• 3.5. How do I stop VM from opening/raising frames?
• 3.6. How do I make VM expunge all my deleted mail when I quit?

4. Getting Mail

• 4.1. Getting mail from a POP3 or IMAP server
• 4.2. Getting mail from a local spool directory
• 4.3. VM and Emacs seem to lock up occasionally
• 4.4. Why do I get the error message "movemail: Permission denied for lock file" when trying to get my mail?
• 4.5. Using VM with qmail-style mail directories

5. Reading Mail

• 5.1. Replying to mail with quoting
• 5.2. Can VM read MIME-encoded mail?
• 5.3. Displaying graphical smiley-faces

6. Composing Mail

• 6.1. How do I add X-Whatever headers to my messages?
• 6.2. How do I include a signature with my mail message?
• 6.3. How can I include a random signature file?
• 6.4. How do I enable draft handling?

7. Sending Mail

• 7.1. How do you use mail-aliases with VM?
• 7.2. How to add the Re: in front of replies
• 7.3. How can I BCC: myself on all outgoing messages?
• 7.4. How do I FCC: myself on all outgoing messages?
• 7.5. Is there an easy way to get VM to include all recipients but me in the CC: field of a reply?
• 7.6. Can I send mail to a POP server?
• 7.7. Can I use VM with smail/qmail/some other mailer?

8. MIME support in VM

• 8.1. What are VM's MIME capabilities?
• 8.2. Decoding attachments is very slow. Why?
• 8.3. How do I extend VM's MIME capabilities so it handles a new MIME type?
• 8.4. How can I read Microsoft Word Documents which are attachments?
• 8.5. Is there a way to read text/enriched mail?
• 8.6. Can I display text/html parts inside VM?
• 8.7. How can I make my PGP-signature be a MIME attachment?
• 8.8. How do I handle uuencoded text?
• 8.9. How do I read x-uuencode attachments?
• 8.10. How do I prevent text/html (or other MIME types) from being displayed?

9. Folders

• 9.1. What Is a VM folder?
• 9.2. Filing mail into folders
• 9.3. Auto filing mail into folders
• 9.4. Virtual folders

10. Filtering and Sorting

• 10.1. Sorting with `vm-auto-archive-messages'
• 10.2 Automatically generate folder name based on the username of the sender
• 10.3. Auto-deleting with virtual folders
• 10.4. Filtering with procmail
• 10.5. An example virtual-folder method
• 10.6. Another virtual-folder example
• 10.7. VM and spam filtering

11. VM and Other Programs

• 11.1. BBDB
• 11.2. Feedmail
• 11.3. Fetchmail
• 11.4. Mailcrypt
• 11.5. smtpmail.el
• 11.6. Supercite (supercite.el)

12. Miscellaneous

• 12.1. Building vm.elc under NT
• 12.2. How do I convert an MH inbox to a VM inbox?
• 12.3. How do I convert a RMAIL folder to a VM folder?
• 12.4. How do I make VM less flashy?
• 12.5. What other VM resources are out there?
• 12.6. How do I make VM load/save big files faster?