🚀 go-pugleaf

Joe Wells writes:
 > [Jim, this is CC-ed to bug-vm to ask for suggestions.]
 > 
 > >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Peters <joshua5@bucsf.bu.edu> writes:
 > 
 > Jim>   If you have an example of the list that VM uses to archive mail to
 > Jim> folders, would you send it to me?  I talking about the list
 > Jim> associated with 'vm-auto-folder-alist'.
 > 
 > For an example, look in "~jbw/.vm".  There should be an example for this
 > variable in the manual when VM 5 is officially released (I hope).

Bah, whatever happened to experimentation?  VM isn't a bomb after
all. :-)  But, yes, there will be examples.

 > Jim> Besides, I'm looking for a hint of some kind of scheme to sort my
 > Jim> mail and file it away.  Is there some way to tell VM to throw some,
 > Jim> but not all, incomming mail into folders, and have the rest come up
 > Jim> and then archive it after you've seen it?
 > 
 > No, not really, that's one of my biggest complaints about the archiving
 > mechanism.  The only thing I can think of is to have two different values
 > for vm-auto-folder-alist and to switch between them.  You would use the
 > first value for "throwing some but not all incoming mail into folders" and
 > the second value for "archiving the rest after you've seen them".
 > 
 > Anyone know of a better scheme?

You're pretty close to what I have in mind.  What we'll probably
end up with is an auto-filter-alist for incoming mail.  The idea
extends rather nicely.  (Thanks again, Mike.)