created by

Suresh Govindachar

script type

utility

description

____________________________________________________________ The Mail Suite (TMS):  Send, Receive and Organize Mail                        via an Editable User Interface (EUI)                        using VIM As the Editor                        (on WINDOWS and on Unix)                        (relies on perl) ____________________________________________________________ Motivation     People who know VIM (especially those who have discovered explorer.vim) are aware of the speed, the customized form and, once learned, the ease of issuing commands and processing the results of the commands while in VIM.  This plugin, The Mail Suite (tms), exploits that power of VIM in the domain of electronic mail: for the tasks of sending, receiving and organizing mail. ____________________________________________________________ The Command Set (Overview) Since The Mail Suite builds on VIM's command set, there are only a handful of new commands (or tasks):    - Get emails (from a POP3 server) and save in raw (.eml) format    - Send a buffer (even one without a file) or files as an email (via a SMTP server)    - Index (create a ''table of contents'' for) a folder of emails    - Open an email from the index (and then open the next or the previous email)    - Reply, Forward or Acknowledge an email    - Delete, Move or Copy emails ____________________________________________________________ Contrast of Interfaces for Mail Clients Here's a contrast that makes an aspect of the power of VIM as a user interface clear:  other email clients need lots more commands than the mail-specific commands listed above since they need to provide a user interface;  and their interface is restrictive (compared to that of VIM) in regard to the means for navigating and manipulating the stuff on the screen and in not allowing keystroke customization.

install details

____________________________________________________________ System Requirements TMS has been tested on Windows 98 and Linux.  It requires VIM with perl support.  The perl module libnet is required (and one easy way to provide this is to have external perl too). ____________________________________________________________ Installation Essentially, extracting tms.tar.gz into the vimfiles directory (on Windows) or into the ~/.vim directory (on Unix) while preserving folder names; then regenerate the help-tags (using the command :helptags). Extracting deploys the following files below the vimfiles or .vim directory:        ftdetect/index.vim        ftplugin/index.vim        syntax/index.vim        plugin/tms.vim        mail/_tmsrc.example        mail/tms.vim        after/ftplugin/mail.vim        doc/tms.txt The help-tags can be regenerated, for example, by executing '':helptags $vim\vimfiles\doc'' from within vim.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
tms_1_14.tar.gz	1.14	2004-09-08	6.0	Suresh Govindachar	- Added requested "custom completion" feature to complete the mail-folder in commands such as :TMSMakeIndex - Hereby explicitly revealing existence of the command :TMSShowIndex <mail-folder> - Added test of perl version (require 5.8.0)
tms_1_13.tar.gz	1.13	2004-09-05	6.0	Suresh Govindachar	See mail/release_notes:  The main new feature is an illustration of filtering, and the use of quickfix commands (:cn, :copen etc.) to visit mail folders which have new mail.
tms_1_12.tar.gz	1.12	2004-08-14	6.0	Suresh Govindachar	See mail/release_notes (minor updates including use of VimEnter event to capture passwords). Welcome all feedback.
tms_1_11.tar.gz	1.11	2004-08-11	6.0	Suresh Govindachar	Automated method for getting the passwords for the various mail servers didn't work since it was run during VIM's start-up.  Have added a manual method for setting passwords.  Needs to be done only ONCE -- see mail/release_notes. (Do keep me informed of positive or negative experience with using tms.)

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