VM was written by Kyle Jones! Hail Kyle! The last release from Kyle was 7.19. VM's home page up to version 7.19 on the World Wide Web is at http://www.wonderworks.com/vm and the FAQ is still hosted there. The later versions of VM have been maintained by the user community. The current 'VM development team' (vm@lists.launchpad.net) consists of of Robert Widhof-Fenk, Ulrich Müller and Uday Reddy, but contributions from various other users and developers have also been incorporated in them. See the info manual for a full list of contributors. ******************************************************************************* VERSION INFO The VM versions 8.2.0 and up are designed to work with: - XEmacs version 21.4 or higher, with MULE support - Gnu Emacs versions 22 or higher (While Gnu Emacs 21 is permitted, it is not recommended.) The users of vcard's need a vcard.el package with vcard-api-version 2.0. (A suitable version of vcard.el is included in this distribution.) ******************************************************************************** INSTALLATION Read INSTALL and follow the instructions to compile and setup VM. If you are new to VM, see example.vm for example configuration settings (in a '~/.vm' file). Read more in the VM manual on 'info'. ******************************************************************************* BUGS Please report bugs in VM using the VM function M-x vm-submit-bug-report This function formats an email report including the entire state of VM which can be used to diagnose and fix the bug. Please include information about how to reproduce the problem. Please report any problems or bugs otherwise they cannot be fixed! If you are not sure that the problem is a bug or that it could be of general importance to other users, you are welcome to discuss it on the USENET groups gnu.emacs.vm.bugs or gnu.emacs.vm.info! However, it is not always possible to diagnose problems without full information about your VM settings. So, filing a bug report is necessary. ******************************************************************************* Homepage The new homepage of VM is at http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/ hosted by Savannah. The latest downloads of VM can also be found here. The source code of VM is at http://launchpad.net/vm hosted by Launchpad. Eventually, we may migrate to a single site for both the facilities. ******************************************************************************* Wiki The Wiki at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryViewMail is best suited to conserve code snippets, cooking guides or feature requests. ******************************************************************************* Code Repository We maintain the source code using Bazaar (http://bazaar-vcs.org/). If you want to get the latest development version of VM, or want to contribute changes you may want to branch from the follwing launchpad URI: lp:vm which is short for the full URL: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vm/vm/trunk # create your own branch from the trunk # the 'lp' URL's do they same job as the 'http' URL's above. bzr get lp:vm # for the main trunk (or) bzr get lp:vm/8.2.x # for the latest version in the 8.2.x series # get updates bzr pull # start hacking emacs vm-pgg.el # commit your changes bzr commit # Generate a bundle of your changes for merging bzr bundle-revisions --output=xy-changes.diff # Attach the bundle to a mail (rather than doing cut&paste) and send # it to vm @ lists.launchpad.net with a descriptive subject. # Alternatively, upload it to your space on Launchpad bzr push lp:~username/vm/branchname # Then send a message to vm @ lists.launchpad.net requesting merge ******************************************************************************* Get involved The project home is at http://launchpad.net/vm Registering on launchpad is painless process and makes it convenient to participate in the development of VM (or other Launchpad projects). The "Bugs" tracker is where we keep track of the bugs that need fixing as well as TODO items. The "Blueprints" section records our future development plans. ******************************************************************************* COMMENTS In addition to Kyle Jones's original VM, this version includes various contributions from Robert Widhopf-Fenk and others. Extensions for VM written by Robert: - vm-pine.el for draft handling and other Pine inspired functions. - vm-ps-print.el for nice ps-printing functions - vm-rfaddons.el adds various add-ons to VM - vm-grepmail a grepmail interface for VM - vm-avirtual.el brings additional virtual folder selectors and functions for spam tagging - vm-biff.el is a xbiff within VM, notifying you of new mail - vm-serial.el templates for mails, personalized serial mails - vm-summary-faces.el face base on virtual selectors Additional extensions for VM from other people: - vm-pcrisis.el by Rob Hodges for people with personal crisis which need to rewrite headers automatically. - vcard.el by Noah Friedman <friedman 'at' splode.com> for vm-vcard.el displaying vcards within VM. Enhancements: - Support for reading HTML messages using Emacs packages and external applications, as well as replying to HTML messages. - IMAP server support by Uday Reddy Local Variables: mode: text coding: utf-8 End: