Re: [VM] trash

[Uday Reddy]

On 4/14/2011 8:53 AM, salome wrote:

> 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