vm and emacs

[Jonathan Nicol]

IMAP uses port 993 for SSL connections, try this. You'll never be able to
get mail from dante.u, you've got it right with
user.deskmail.washington.edu (which is actually a DNS pointer to the
physical machine where your mail is stored.)

Jonathan

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, J. Thomas wrote:

>
> I'm trying to access my mail on dante (which I think is actually at
> method.deskmail.washington.edu) from a different linux box using VM within
> emacs.  Has anybody had any success with something like this??
>
> here is my .vm file (which is sources by my .emacs file), and everything
> with a ; is supposed to be a comment (and just shows the various
> combinations I have tried).
>
> ;; Where to save folders for VM (View Mail)
> (setq vm-folder-directory "~/.vmMAIL/")
>
> ;; Where to put the INBOX when using VM
> (setq vm-primary-inbox "~/.vmMAIL/inbox")
>
> ; This specified where the outgoin gmail (FCC) should go
> (setq mail-archive-file-name (expand-file-name "~/.vmMAIL/outbox"))
>
> ;(setq vm-spool-files (list
> ;       (concat "method.deskmail.washington.edu:143:apop:"
> ;                              (getenv "method") ":*")
> ;                      (concat "dante.u.washington.edu:110:apop:"
> ;                              (getenv "method") ":*")
> ;                      (concat "method.deskmail.washington.edu:110:apop:"
> ;                              (getenv "method") ":*")
> ;                      (concat "dante.u.washington.edu:143:inbox:login:"
> ;                              (getenv "USER") ":*")
> ;       )
> ;)
>
>
> (setq vm-imap-auto-expunge-alist
>         '(
>
> ("imap-ssl:method.deskmail.washington.edu:143:inbox:login:method:*" . nil)
>          )
> )
> (setq vm-auto-get-new-mail t)
>
>
> Thanks,
> jt
>
>
> **********************************************************************
> Jason Thomas                    method at u.washington.edu
> Graduate Student                http://students.washington.edu/~method
> Department of Sociology
> University of Washington
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