Vmail does not start correctly on Linux systems

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It looks like this is what vmail does during the start:

vim --servername VMAIL:lzap -S /home/lzap/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/vmail-2.9.2/lib/vmail.vim -c '' vmailbuffer

The problem with that is that on Linux systems, vim cannot be compiled with +clientserver option, because this feature uses X11 IPC. It works fine on MacVim because the X11 part was replaced there and ported over to vim. Do authors of this nice project use Mac? ;-)

Workaround: On Linux use "vimx" which is a wrapper that starts gvim in terminal mode.

This project looks good! Trying it out currently on my Fedora 20.

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I have an alias vim="gvim -v" which is essentially vim=vimx, but for some reason vmail ignores aliases. Therefore a patch will be needed.

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Ah!

export VMAIL_VIM=vimx

This would be sane default for all Linux systems.

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By the way, I can confirm Vmail works with Zimbra (IMAP). Looks good.