25 Future Plans

Some of the ideas being worked on for future extensions of VM are the following:

• Ability to compose rich text email messages (in ’text/enriched’ and ’text/html’ modes).
• Incremental search in virtual folders.
• Thread-level operations such as killing an entire thread.
• Headers-only downloading of IMAP folders.
• Downloading IMAP messages without attachments.
• Support for maildir folders.
• A message migration/expiration facility.