vm-auto-archive-messages has begun prompting for confirmation

[Joe Pfeiffer]

I recently upgraded to 8.2.0b-1 (under Debian), and vm-auto-archive-messages has begun prompting for confirmation with the message "Auto archive the entire folder? "

If I'm reading the code correctly (I'm far from a lisp expert, let alone emacs lisp) this is actually deliberate so I'm complaining about a new feature, but I really do want to be able to auto-archive messages without VM asking for permission.

It appears the argument to the function now gives a choice between prompting once for the entire folder or once for each message to be archived. Would it be possible to add an option that disables the prompt entirely?

[John Hein (xpqheqdvq4)]

set vm-confirm-for-auto-archive to nil

See also:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/vm/+bug/793541

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Joe Pfeiffer writes:

> I recently upgraded to 8.2.0b-1 (under Debian), and vm-auto-archive-
> messages has begun prompting for confirmation with the message "Auto
> archive the entire folder? "

Dear Joe and John, what is this version? We haven't released anything
beyond 8.2.0b, and that shouldn't have this behaviour.

[Joe Pfeiffer (joseph-pfeifferfamily)]

Uday Reddy writes:
>Joe Pfeiffer writes:
>
>> I recently upgraded to 8.2.0b-1 (under Debian), and vm-auto-archive-
>> messages has begun prompting for confirmation with the message "Auto
>> archive the entire folder? "
>
>Dear Joe and John, what is this version? We haven't released anything
>beyond 8.2.0b, and that shouldn't have this behaviour.
>
John, I haven't tried your suggestion yet. It'll be a few hours
before I have a chance to.

Uday, I'm running 8.2.0b -- the "-1" in the version number in my bug
report is Debian's indication that this is the first Debian release of
8.2.0b. The particular code in vm-save.el that's triggering the
behavior starts at line 136:

   ;; Double check if the user really wants to archive
   (unless (or arg vm-message-pointer
        (y-or-n-p "Auto archive the entire folder? "))
     (error "Aborted"))

I've taken this out of my local copy, and the behavior has stopped.
--
Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. http://pfeifferfamily.net/
1440 Tierra del Sol Dr 575.525.2764 (H)
Las Cruces, NM 88007 575.496.3501 (C)

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Joe Pfeiffer writes:

> Uday, I'm running 8.2.0b -- the "-1" in the version number in my bug
> report is Debian's indication that this is the first Debian release of
> 8.2.0b. The particular code in vm-save.el that's triggering the
> behavior starts at line 136:

Indeed, you are right. The new variable isn't there in 8.2.0b. Your fix is
perfectly fine. Thanks for reporting!

[Joe Pfeiffer (joseph-pfeifferfamily)]

John Hein writes:
>set vm-confirm-for-auto-archive to nil

Doesn't seem to have made a difference
--
Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. http://pfeifferfamily.net/
1440 Tierra del Sol Dr 575.525.2764 (H)
Las Cruces, NM 88007 575.496.3501 (C)