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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Vmail</title>
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<p>You can use range selections in the message list when you star, delete, mark as
spam, or archive. Use <code><C-v></code> to start marking a range of lines (the vertical
position of the cursor doesn't matter). Then type any of the above commands to
perform an action on all the messages you selected.</p>
+<h2>Checking for new messages</h2>
+
+<p>To check for new messages in the current mailbox, press <code>u</code> in normal mode and
+watch the status line.</p>
+
<h2>Switching mailboxes, moving messages, copying messages to another mailbox</h2>
<p>To switch mailboxes, type <code>,m</code>. You'll see an autocomplete window appear at the top.
The standard vim autocomplete keystrokes apply:</p>
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<p>After you fill in the headers, write your message. Make sure there is a
blank line between the headers and the body of your message.</p>
<p>When you're done writing, send the message by typing <code>,vs</code> in normal mode.</p>
-<p>In this early version of vmail, saving and resuming draft emails is a bit
-clunky. But it works.</p>
-
<p>While you're composing a message in the composition window, you can save a
-draft to a local file the standard vim <code>w</code> command with a filename argument:</p>
+draft to a local file with the standard vim <code>:w</code> command:</p>
<pre><code>:w my_draft_filename.txt
</code></pre>
+<p>Make sure you append *.txt to the filename, or else vmail won't recognize it as
+a potential email when you reload it.</p>
+
<p>Make sure you don't use <code>:wq</code> unless you mean to quit vmail immediately. After
you save the draft to a file, you can go back to the message list by typing <code>q</code>
in normal mode.</p>
-<p>To resume writing the draft later, type <code>,c</code> to open a message composition
-window, delete all its contents, and then type <code>:r my_draft_filename.txt</code> to
-load the draft email into the buffer. Make sure you delete any blank lines that
-are created above the header. Resume editing. Send by typing <code>,vs</code>.</p>
+<p>To resume writing the draft later, just type <code>:e my_draft_filename.txt</code> to load
+the draft email into a buffer. (Use <code>:e!</code> if you're already in the message
+composition window.) Resume editing. Send by typing <code>,vs</code>.</p>
<p>At any point, you can quit the composition window by typing <code>q</code> in normal mode.</p>
<h2>Attachments</h2>