Re: [VM] Installing View Mail on Aquamacs?

[Uday Reddy]

Hi Marius, welcome to VM!

> (setq vm-imap-account-alist
>            '(
>              ("imap-ssl:mail.ethz.ch:993:*:login:<mylogin>:*" "ethz")
>              ("imap-ssl:imap.googlemail.com:993:*:login:<address@hidden>:*" 
> "gmail")
>              )
>      )
> (setq vm-primary-inbox "imap-ssl:mail.ethz.ch:993:*:login:<mylogin>:*" "ethz")
                                                                         ^^^^^^
This doesn't belong here.

> (setq vm-crash-box "~/email/inbox.crash.mbox")
> (setq vm-spool-files `((,vm-primary-inbox
>                             "/var/mail/me"
>                             ,vm-crash-box)))
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.mbox$" . vm-mode))
> (setq mail-user-agent 'vm-user-agent)
> 
> On starting Aquamacs, I obtain: 
> An error has occurred while loading `~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs 
> Emacs/Preferences.el (or .elc)':
> Wrong type argument: symbolp, ethz

I think you are trying to do too much at one go.  Please try out one thing
at a time.  I think you need to remove vm-crash-box and vm-spool-files.
They don't apply to IMAP folders.  Please this EmacsWiki page for a quick
start.

  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ViewMailQuickStart

All the best!

Uday



> 
> Needless to say, it is not working. I can't even use M-x vm (=> [no match]). 
> I'm not sure if the installation worked correctly (although I haven't found 
> errors), I haven't found anything on Aquamacs & View Mail except these 
> post(s):
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=Aquamacs&submit=Search%21&idxname=viewmail-info&max=20&result=normal&sort=score
> 
> Has anyone tried this installation before? Did I miss anything above? (I 
> mainly followed the View Mail wiki here but I'm a total newbie to Aquamacs + 
> View Mail so there is some chance I did something wrong).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Marius
>