vmail -g option does not work (to gather my Gmail contacts for autocompletion)

[JinraeKim]

Error report

Hi, I'm trying to load my Gmail contacts automatically by -g option, i.e., vmail -g.

When typing the command and press Enter on Terminal, an error message is displayed:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/net/imap.rb:1219:in `get_tagged_response`: Unknown Mailbox: [Gmail]/["Sent Mail"] (Failure) (Net::IMAP::NoResponseError)

After this, vmail-contacts.txt file is generated without any contents (empty file).

My setting is as follows:

• Mac or Ubuntu
• vmail 2.9.10 (due to the issue)
• Gmail language is English(US) (to prevent unexpected issues)

Note

• A plain vmail command works well though. I just wonder if there's an easy way to loading my Gmail contacts for autocompletion.
• I'm a kind of newbie on Github and Vim, so please tell me if this way of opening an issue is not appropriate.

[tom-adsfund]

Same here.

[notalex]

@JinraeKim, I apologize for the late response. Your issue is appropriate.
I will try to replicate this issue on my end. In the meantime, the easy way to load gmail contacts is to export contacts out of Gmail:
https://support.google.com/contacts/answer/7199294?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

Find or create a file with the path ~/.vmail/<username>/vmail-contacts.txt (<username> is the name of the folder containing .vmailrc).
Vmail will read your contacts from there. It has to be a simple file with one contact per line. For example here is a sample from my vmail-contacts file:

~/.vmail/notalex/vmail-contacts.txt

[email protected]
[email protected]
Example User <[email protected]>

[tom-adsfund]

@notalex The approach you've suggested doesn't really do the same thing: the people I send emails to are mostly not in my contacts.

[notalex]

@tom-adsfund, if you need to send emails to other accounts(not in your Google Contacts) and you need Vmail to autocomplete them; you could simply add those emails in the vmail-contacts.txt file and vmail will autocomplete them with the default Ctrl-x Ctrl-u mapping.
Let me know if this addresses your need.

[JinraeKim]

@notalex
Thank you for suggesting an alternative way to loading contacts, and it works well.
However, I felt this way is still not comfortable :(
But I've really been impressed by this project as a user of vim :) Good luck!

P.S. I think it will become more comfortable if I can load contacts of Gmail easily and sending emails to a group via shortcut.