Re: wl newbie, various questions

[Francesco Mazzoli <f@mazzo.li>]

> Lol!!! One thing that sure surprises me about Wanderlust is all the
> top posting.  Being text based, I expected more adherence to "old
> school" defacto standards....

Well guess what, I'm not old school and nobody ever educated me on how
to write emails :). If you have a link explaining the pros and cons
I'd be glad to read it.

Personally I do what makes more sense to me - that is, leaving the
entire quoted message at the bottom and quoting the relevant parts
manually.

Francesco.

At Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:55:43 -0600,
Ken Gunderson wrote:
> 
> At Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:30:48 +0100,
> Francesco Mazzoli wrote:
> > 
> 
> Lol!!! One thing that sure surprises me about Wanderlust is all the
> top posting.  Being text based, I expected more adherence to "old
> school" defacto standards....
>  
> > Ok, problem 1 is more or less solved, now that I understood how the
> > matching on the parent folder works.
> > 
> > By the way, I set up some macros to automatically configure different
> > accounts, if someone is interested I can post them somewhere.
> > 
> > At Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:58:22 +0100,
> > Francesco Mazzoli wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I've been using Wanderlust for a week now and I'm quite happy with it,
> > > but I have a few problems that I could not figure out with the manual.
> > > 
> > > I use Wanderlust to access IMAP folders remotely, in several different
> > > servers. For each server I have various folders set up, and I have a
> > > different email address and smtp server for each IMAP server - the
> > > classic multiple account situation. I have a template for each email
> > > address.
> > > 
> > > Now, in order of importance:
> > > 
> > >   * How do I make wanderlust select the right template when replying?
> > >     the solution seems to be in fiddling with `wl-draft-config-alist',
> > >     but I couldn't come up with a reliable solution. Using
> > >     `wl-draft-parent-folder' works only when replying from the
> > >     Summary, and is quite annoying anyway since I have a complex
> > >     folder structure, so there isn't "one" parent folder to
> > >     select. The ideal thing would be to match the `Delivered-To'
> > >     header of the thing I'm replying to, but I haven't had much
> > >     success.
> 
> Does C-c C-j allow you to page through your templates?  This isn't too
> large a burden for when WL guesses wrong, no?
> 
> > >   * I have various rules in `wl-refile-alist' and it works great. The
> > >     problem is that to refile I have to fetch the messages manually to
> > >     get the body, and then `C-o' in the summary. Is it possible to
> > >     automate this process, so that it will do that immediately after
> > >     syncing the folders? A solution seems to be `elmo-split-rule', but
> > >     it looks like it is not suited for my situation in which I'm
> > >     filtering multiple folders, since the matching rules are all in
> > >     one place.
> > >     
> > >   * Easy one: how do I mark all the messages received in a certain
> > >     folder automatically as read?
> > > 
> > >   * I already have `wl-stay-folder-window' set to `t', but I'd also
> > >     like the message to appear to the right of the summary, instead of
> > >     below - I have a wide screen and a lot of space is wasted that
> > >     way.
> 
> This may be more of a window/frame management issue.  You may want to
> try #emacs as there are some pretty sharp cookies hanging out there.
> As contrasted to #wanderlust, which I suspect only has a few bots.
> They can probably point you to all kinds of stuff like this
> 
> <http://emacswiki.org/emacs/WindowResize#toc2>
> 
> which is only one of many links I was served up with one day in answer
> to a question.  Not that this is your answer, but maybe find
> something related.
> 
> Otherwise, I'd thought I encountered this somewhere's on my Wanderlust
> trawls but cannot remember where.  I'll follow up if I do.
> 
> Regards-- Ken
>