VM and Gmail Woes

[Chris Yocum]

Hi Everyone, I am having some problems with the gmail imap server and
I was wondering if you could help. I am relatively new to VM so
please have some patience. Basically, it works (VM 8.1.0) but
nothing that I do in VM is reflected on gmail when I log into it.
For instance, when I read an email that email is still marked as
unread on the web interface for gmail. Another instance when I
mark an email as deleted then expunge the email, it is not done on
the web interface (all I see it do is save to the imap-cache). I
feel that I am doing something wrong here but I am not experienced
enough to tell what it is. I have attached my .vm file to the end
of this post. Thank you very much in advance for your help.

All the best, Chris Yocum

setq vm-imap-folder-cache-directory (substitute-in-file-name
"~/mail/"))

(setq vm-imap-account-alist '(
("imap-ssl:imap.gmail.com:993:*:login:cyo...@gmail.com:<password>"
"gmail") ))

(setq vm-primary-inbox
"imap-ssl:imap.gmail.com:993:inbox:login:cyo...@gmail.com:*")

(setq vm-auto-get-new-mail t)

(setq vm-send-using-mime t)
(setq vm-stunnel-program
"/usr/bin/X11/stunnel4")

(setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 nil nil))
smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com" smtpmail-smtp-server
"smtp.gmail.com" smtpmail-smtp-service 587 smtpmail-debug-info t)
(require 'smtpmail)

(add-hook 'vm-mode-hook 'mc-install-read-mode) (add-hook
'vm-summary-mode-hook 'mc-install-read-mode) (add-hook
'vm-virtual-mode-hook 'mc-install-read-mode) (add-hook
'vm-mail-mode-hook 'mc-install-write-mode)

[Scott Brim]

Chris Yocum allegedly wrote on 04/13/2010 04:51 EDT:
> For instance, when I read an email that email is still marked as
> unread on the web interface for gmail. Another instance when I
> mark an email as deleted then expunge the email, it is not done on
> the web interface (all I see it do is save to the imap-cache). I
> feel that I am doing something wrong here but I am not experienced
> enough to tell what it is. I have attached my .vm file to the end
> of this post. Thank you very much in advance for your help.

> (setq vm-imap-account-alist '(

> ("imap-ssl:imap.gmail.com:993:*:login:cyo...@gmail.com:<password>"
> "gmail") ))

The only difference with mine is that I have * for password.

[Chris Yocum]

Cool. Thanks. I noticed that the imap server was only updated when
you pressed "g" (get new button). Coming from Thunderbird where it
updates automatically whenever you take an action, it will take a bit
to get used to.

[Uday S Reddy]

Chris Yocum wrote:
> Cool. Thanks. I noticed that the imap server was only updated when
> you pressed "g" (get new button). Coming from Thunderbird where it
> updates automatically whenever you take an action, it will take a bit
> to get used to.

It is actually "S" (vm-save-folder) that saves the changes to the folders. get-new-mail also does a little bit of synchronization for technical reasons.

Please be sure to read the section on IMAP folders in the Starting Up section of the info manual.

Cheers,
Uday