short imap account names in auto-folder-alist

[Uday Reddy]

nega (29 April 2010):

Is it possible to use some kind of IMAP folder spec in to vm-auto-folder-
alist? I've to just be able to do "a ### S" in an IMAP folder and have
everything filtered for me (to both local folders and IMAP folders).

[nega (nega)]

Here's a patch to update the docs for vm-auto-folder-alist

nega wrote:
> Is it possible to some kind of IMAP folder spec in to vm-auto-folder-
> alist? I've to just be able to do "a ### S" in an IMAP folder and have
> everything filtered for me (to both local folders and IMAP folders).

Auto-archive should work already. (Is that what you mean by 'a'?)

Set the variable vm-imap-save-to-server to t, which is acting as an unnecessary fence right now. (I will remove it in the next release.)

Use the full maildrop-spec names for the IMAP folders in your vm-auto-folder-alist.

Then it should work. Please try it out on a small sample first because I don't think I tested this functionality.

[Note however that there is no separate vm-auto-folder-alist for IMAP folders. So, the same alist should work for archiving both local folders and IMAP folders.]

Cheers,
Uday

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

It will be nice to support short IMAP account names in the save folders.