Re: [VM] FCC for sent messages - how to merge into INBOX?

[Diagon]

Please note the mistyped folder name, below:

---- On Sun, 09 Apr 2017 18:26:55 -0700 Diagon<address@hidden> wrote ---- 
 > Hi. 
 >  
 > I'm trying to get myself settled into VM, but am having one problem for 
 > which I hope I might get some help.  I have two imap folders in my 
 > vm-spool-files that dump into my INBOX, deleting the messages on the server 
 > immediately on download.  That works fine.  To handle sent messages, I would 
 > like to use an FCC line in my mail header, to avoid sending them up to the 
 > server and back down again.   
 >  
 > (1) I tried FCC'ing directly into the INBOX, but that didn't work.  The 
 > message would get in there, which I could see by visiting the INBOX folder 
 > literally (find-file-literally), but it would not show up on the VM INBOX 
 > Summary.  After a few operations with other messages, those "hidden" sent 
 > messages would just disappear from the INBOX. 
 >  
 > (2) So I tried FCC'ing into a SENT folder, and then using "C-u g" to grab 
 > the messages in that folder.  That didn't work either, as it complained that 
 > the folder SENT was not the same type as INBOX (the latter is babyl).   
 >  
 > (3) Finally, I tried to add SENT as one of my vm-spool-files and grab it 
 > with "g", but while that would copy the messages into INBOX and delete them 
 > from SAVE, they would again not show up in Summary, even though visiting 
 > INBOX literally shows the messages in there. 

**... and delete them from SENT ** (not SAVE)

 > On the other hand, if I just visit the SENT folder, I can save the messages 
 > to INBOX, and everything works fine. 
 >  
 > Any thoughts on how I should approach this? 
 >  
 > Thanks /D 
 >  
 > I'm using VM 8.1.2 on emacs 24.5.1 on Ubuntu 16.04.