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. This VM is based on Robert Widhopf-Fenk's patches against VM 7.19. The current version is maintained by the 'VM development team' (vm@lists.launchpad.net) consisting of Robert, Ulrich Müller and Uday Reddy. The persons who have contributed to this version of VM are: * Aidan Kehoe * Glenn <unknown> * Jens Gustedt * John J Foerch * Kevin Rogers * Kyle Jones * Rob Hodges * Robert Marshall * Robert P. Goldman * Katsumi Yamaoka * Julian Bradfield * Samuel Bronson * Brent Goodrick * Ulrich Müller * Uday S. Reddy * Robert Widhopf-Fenk Please mail us a note, if I have forgotten someone or accidently put you on the list. 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 If you have any problems or meet a bug it is best to discuss them on the USENET groups gnu.emacs.vm.bugs or gnu.emacs.vm.info! Also search the groups before posting as there might have been some discussion and a fix before. In addition to discussing the problems on the newsgroups, you are encouraged to file a bug report using the Emacs 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. Report any problems or bugs otherwise they cannot be fixed! Please provide the version number of VM and Emacs and how to reproduce the problem. ******************************************************************************* 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/cgi-bin/wiki?id=CategoryViewMail is best suited to conserve code snippets, cooking guides or feature requests. ******************************************************************************* BZR (http://bazaar-vcs.org/) We maintain the source code using Bazaar. If you want to send us changes or start hacking on your own you may want to branch from the follwing 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 (or) bzr get lp:~vm/vm/trunk # get updates bzr pull # start hacking xemacs 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. ******************************************************************************* 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
