NonGNU-devel ELPA: vm

The Emacs mail reader VM (a.k.a. ViewMail)

VM is a mail reader that runs under GNU Emacs. It was written as an alternative to the Emacs RMAIL mail reader by Kyle Jones. VM is highly configurable and easy to use. It supports POP and IMAP mail servers, understands MIME, and handles mail folders in the standard UNIX mailbox format and the BABYL format used by the RMAIL mailer. It has a powerful virtual folder facility to facilitate searching as well as more advanced handling of multiple mail folders. This site exists to continue VM development community project.

VM is available from https://gitlab.com/emacs-vm/vm

Version Information

The VM versions 8.3.0 and up are designed to work with:

• Gnu Emacs versions 28.1 or higher

Installation

VM releases are avaliable through a non-gnu ELPA package:

   M-x package-install <ret> vm <ret>

If you wish to build from source, see INSTALL for instructions.

If you are new to VM, see example.vm for example configuration settings (to be put into a ~/.vm file). Read more in the VM manual in _info_ format.

Bugs

The preferred way to report bugs is to file issues at https://gitlab.com/emacs-vm/vm/-/issues

Alternatively, bugs can be reported report in VM using the VM function.

M-x vm-submit-bug-report

However, this function currently sends an e-mail to a mailing list, which makes the issue hard to track, hence the Gitlab issue tracker normally is a better option.

The mail message includes your VM configuration information. If you are creating an issue, this information maybe pasted into the GitLab issue.

Please include information about how to reproduce the problem. Please report any problems or bugs, otherwise they cannot be fixed!

If you are not sure that the problem is a bug or that it could be of general importance to other users, you are welcome to discuss it on the mailing lists, see below.

Communication

Communication is done on four mailing lists (VM is a mail reader after all):

• viewmail-info for general discussion of VM features and issues.
• viewmail-dev for VM development discussions. Developers and users interested in development are both welcome.
• viewmail-bugs for reporting bugs in VM. Bugs reported using vm-submit-bug-report go here.
• viewmail-maintainers aimed at at VM maintainers and packagers. The list is public but of limited interest outside its target audience.

Maintainers

VM is maintained by a VM development team: Göran Uddeborg, John Stoffel, Mark Diekhans, Stefan Monnier and Ulrich Müller. More volunteers to help with development are needed; see CONTRIBUTING.

See also

CONTRIBUTING for information on how to get involved in the project.

HISTORY for some notes on the history of the project.