Re: [VM] Installing View Mail on Aquamacs?

[Marius Hofert]

Dear Uday,

thank you very much for your help. I read the quick start and proceeded as you 
suggested.
I only put in:
(setq vm-imap-account-alist
           '(
             ("imap-ssl:mail.ethz.ch:993:*:login:<mylogin>:*" "ethz")
             
("imap-ssl:imap.googlemail.com:993:*:login:<firstname.lastname>@googlemail.com:*"
 "gmail")
             )
     )
(setq vm-primary-inbox "imap-ssl:mail:993:*:login:<mylogin>:*" "ethz")

By what should I have replaced the "^^^^"-part? I found on the quick start 
page, that this part should be the same as in the account list, meaning 
"mail.ethz.ch". 
When I started Aquamacs with the above settings, I obtained: 

An error has occurred while loading `~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs 
Emacs/Preferences.el (or .elc)':
Wrong type argument: symbolp, ethz

So indeed, there is something wrong. I also tried (same error occured):
(setq vm-primary-inbox "imap-ssl:mail.ethz.ch:993:inbox:login:<mylogin>:*" 
"ethz")
which I found here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ViewMailAndImap

Cheers,

Marius

> 

On 2011-10-14, at 22:23 , Uday Reddy wrote:

> 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
>>