🚀 go-pugleaf

 >    My #1 wish for vm is handling similar to INBOX, where vm could detect
 >    that the file on disk has grown and include the new mail.
 > 
 > I second this!  I would also like VM to be able to incorporate new
 > messages that may have been appended to a VM buffer.

The idea of a spool file is an old idea and a good one.  I have
mulled over the idea of having VM support the reading of `live'
folder for quite a while, but it's tricky and I could be doing
other things with the time I'd spend getting that code right.
I've already taken a first whack at the problem with dismal results.

A better idea would seem to be to let individual folders have
their own spool files.  Then their would be no need to invoke VM
on a live folder.  You could have, say, your deliver scripts sort
and dump mail into a personal spool area.  Visiting a normal mail
folder in would cause VM to drag in whatever spool files were
associated with that folder.

This is not to say VM won't eventually be able to deal with
`live' folders, but I'm more likely to add per folder spool files
at the moment.

THe idea of VM noticing that you've poked some stuff at the end
of a folder is much easier to implement, although I'm left
wondering why someone would do such a thing.