Error on startup: "Unknown option argument: "--servername"

[pdbradley]

Danchoi;

Where is your donate button? This looks to be a wonderful tool. If only I could get it running. Here is what I'm seeing. I tried different versions of ruby / vim and even ran vmail on a vanilla .vimrc to see if there was something in my own that was causing an issue. Same error every time.

Philips-Mac-mini% vmail
Starting vmail 2.9.0
Setting VMAIL_BROWSER to 'open'
Setting VMAIL_HTML_PART_READER to 'elinks -dump'
Changing working directory to /Users/philip/.vmail/default
Using config file: /Users/philip/.vmailrc
Using contacts file: vmail-contacts.txt
Starting vmail imap client for xxxxx@gmail.com
INBOX polling disabled.
Working directory: /Users/philip/.vmail/default
Checking vmail.db version... OK
Connecting to database
Starting Vmail::ImapClient in dir /Users/philip/.vmail/default
Starting gmail service at druby://philips-mac-mini.local:52255
Mailbox: INBOX
Query: ["all"]
Query String: all
DRB_URI=druby://philips-mac-mini.local:52255 VMAIL_CONTACTS_FILE=vmail-contacts.txt VMAIL_MAILBOX=INBOX VMAIL_QUERY="all" /usr/bin/vim --servername VMAIL:pdbradley@gmail.com -S /Users/philip/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p448/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/vmail-2.9.0/lib/vmail.vim -c '' vmailbuffer
Using buffer file: vmailbuffer
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Aug 24 2013 18:58:47)
Unknown option argument: "--servername"
More info with: "vim -h"
Closing imap connection
Bye

[notalex]

@pdbradley vim must be compiled with the +clientserver feature for Vmail to work. This was a recent change and I will add to the instructions soon. To check if vim has the feature, run vim --version and check for the +clientserver flag.

[pdbradley]

Well, I do have that flag set, actually. Any other ideas?

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Alex notifications@github.com wrote:

@pdbradley https://github.com/pdbradley vim must be compiled with the
+clientserver feature for Vmail to work. This was a recent change and I
will add to the instructions soon. To check if vim has the feature, run vim
--version and check for the +clientserver flag.

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#173 (comment).

[notalex]

Does the command vim --servername bradley open a vim instance on your machine?

[notalex]

On non X11 machines you need to compile Vim with some additional X11 packages. More details here.

[pdbradley]

It does indeed. % vim --servername bradley
opens an empty vim session

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Alex notifications@github.com wrote:

On non X11 machines you need to compile Vim with some additional X11
packages. More details here
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23589/how-to-install-light-weight-vim-and-to-be-able-to-efficiently-load-files-into-on#answer-23601
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#173 (comment).

[lzap]

Fixed in

#180

[masashik]

Additionally, +clientserver is discussed in stackoverflow too. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10231223/compile-vim-7-3-with-clientserver-feature-on-mac-os-x
I personally took the following steps to include +clientserver (tested on OS X 10.11.2).

    brew uninstall --force vim
    sudo brew install vim --with-client-server
    brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz
    brew link --overwrite vim

[minimul]

I just used MacVim to get around this in OSX 10.7.5:

VMAIL_VIM=mvim vmail