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Useful ways to customize VM.
Some messages come with huge lists of recipients and one has to page
through them before getting to the actual content of the message. The
shrunken headers feature, included in vm-rfaddons,
addresses this problem. To use the feature, you must add
shrunken-headers to the variable vm-enable-addons in
your VM init file:
(setq vm-enable-addons (cons 'shrunken-headers vm-enable-addons))
The add-on abbreviates all the message headers to
single lines, and adds a button at the end. You can click
the button to expand the header to its full length. The function
vm-shrunken-headers-toggle can be used to expand or collapse
all the headers of a message. You might bind this to a key, if you
use it often.
(This add-on was provided by Robert Fenk.)
The default setting of VM for handling MIME alternatives is
best-internal, which means the best alternative that can be
displayed internally in VM is chosen. Many users have environments
where only text/plain parts can be displayed internally.
However, some messages come with text/html parts that are
expected to be more faithful to the sender’s composition. On
occasion, you might wish to see the text/html part even if it
has to be viewed externally.
The function vm-toggle-best-mime function, included in
vm-rfaddons, allows you to change VM’s selection method to
best temporarily so that you can view the text/html
part. You can use the same function to change the method back to
best-internal.
(Thanks to Alley Stoughton for this contribution.)
Messages with attachments get bulky and increase the size of VM
folders, slowing down VM. The functions
vm-save-all-attachments and vm-save-attachments provide
ways to save attachments of messages on the file system and deleting
them from the mail folders.
The function vm-mime-auto-save-all-attachments, included in
vm-rfaddons, provides enhanced functionality for saving
attachments. It saves the attachments in a subdirectory of
vm-mime-save-attachment-save-directory, whose name is obtained
by concating the “from”, “subject” and “date” headers of the
message. This can be customized via the variable
vm-mime-auto-save-all-attachments-subdir.
You can save the attachments of all new messages automatically by
putting vm-mime-auto-save-all-attachments in
vm-select-new-message-hook.
(This add-on was provided by Robert Fenk.)
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