How to use VM with alternative mailboxes?

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From: Tim Ramsey
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1992 20:17

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I'm using VM 5.32beta with Emacs 18.58.  I use Elm's "filter" program
to classify incoming mail and stuff it into one of three mailboxes:
/usr/spool/mail/tar (my system mailbox), ~/Mail/work (high priority
mail) and ~/Mail/mail.lists (junk mail).  I have no problems using VM
to read my system mailbox, but using it to read my ~/Mail mailboxes
doesn't work so well.

If I use vm-visit-folder to read "work" mail and new mail comes in
while I am reading, "g" sometimes sees the new mail, sometimes it
doesn't.  I haven't yet figured out why this happens intermittently.

However, if new mail has come in while I've been reading the folder
and I try to expunge, I get a message warning me that the disk file
has changed since visited or saved.  If I go ahead and expunge I
lose the new mail.

How can I get vm to treat my auxiliary mailboxes as real, live
mailboxes?

Thanks for any wisdom!

-- 
Tim Ramsey
tar@math.ksu.edu

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