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Vee-Emmers,

I have another suggestion for making VM just a little nicer to use.
Unfortunately I don't really have a clue as to how this one should be 
implemented, so I thought I'd throw it out to you folks.  

Here's the sitch:

For some time now I've been keeping my mail folders compressed, thanks
to the handy way that VM and crypt.el work together (thanks to Kyle
for these two indispensable packages).  

I've just started playing with encrypted mail folders.  Again, this
usually works great.  The problem arises if I vm-save-message a
message into the crypt-ed folder and I mis-type the encryption key.
When I do this my "secret" folder gets mucked up.  If I have my wits
about me, I'll immediately run vm-visit-folder on the crypt-ed folder
to make sure all is still well there (and take appropriate action if I
screwed up), but what if I forget to check?

Initially, I thought a workable solution would be to have VM scan the 
target folder, looking for email headers indicating a proper mail
folder.  ("From" would be better for this purpose than VM-specific
headers to maintain compatibility with other mail readers if the
crypt-ed file is ever decrypted.)  However, I found that if I saved
messages to a folder using two different keys, each key decrypted the
messages saved using that key, tho' the summaries got screwed up.

I've noticed this behavior running VM-5.21(beta) and GNU Emacs 18.55.2, 
but I suspect this happens for all versions of VM and Emacs.

						Jay_Borkenhagen@ATT.Com 

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