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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
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Subject: Re: Two VM Questions
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Date: 27 Sep 89 02:45:28 GMT
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In-reply-to: robe@bcarh54.bnr.ca's message of 21 Sep 89 17:10:39 GMT

In article <1460@bnr-fos.UUCP> robe@bcarh54.bnr.ca (Rob Enns) writes:
   Hi, I've just started using the VM mail reader, version 4.11, and I
   have a couple of questions about it:

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   1) I've had trouble getting VM's auto-folder feature to work as
      advertised.  Being a elisp novice, I haven't been able to decode the
      format for the variable vm-auto-folder-alist, which is supposed to be:
      Could someone please post an example of how to do this properly?

I'm sure we'll see plenty of people's vm-auto-folder-alist's.  Here's mine:
(this is part of a very big setq...)

      vm-auto-folder-alist '(
			     ("To" ("root" . "root"))
			     ("Cc" 
			      ("root" . "root")
			      ("system" . "root"))
			     ("Subject" 
			      ("archived" . "archive")
			      ("wild files$"	. "adm")
			      ("^setuid/setgid"	. "adm")
			      ("accounting$"	. "adm")
			      ("^UUCP Summary$"	. "adm")
			      ("^mail stats$"	. "adm")
			      ("^mcp check$"	. "adm")
			      ("backups log$"	. "adm")
			      ("^News Errlog$"	. "adm")
			      ("^UUCP map for"	. "maps")
			      ("^restore req"	. "root")))

Yes, I know I can coalesce those "adm" entries with better regexp's,
but I'm lazy...

   2) Is there a more recent version of VM available?  If it's in the
      elisp archive, could someone please post the internet address of
      the archive?  I seem to have lost it.

It's currently VM-4.41, available via anonymous ftp from
xanth.cs.odu.edu and cfdl.larc.nasa.gov, along with all the patches to
get you to that release if you have an earlier version.  If you're
really running VM-4.11, you're VERY out of date...

	...tad