[mew-int 3081] Re: mew compared to wanderlust??

Hi All - I have been using MEW for about 2 years, and I am really happy
with it.  It works fine in the IMAP/Exchange/SMTP world, and subfolders
are easy to use and set up.  I also access subfolders, like the messages
sent from my handheld, which is brilliant.  It shows HTML fine, and
plain text of course; standard attachments work like a charm.

I really like the MEW environment, and am very thankful that I can
still efficiently work in emacs for email. :)

It does take some set up to get going on your system (I'm using ubuntu),
but once you switch I believe you'll like it.  I didn't ever get my
outgoing email certificates/keys to work, though spent a lot of time on
it; would like to revisit that again at some point.

Thanks!
Jeff

From: Ken Gunderson <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: 
Subject: [mew-int 3079] mew compared to wanderlust??
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 15:54:53 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

> Hello:
> 
> No, it's not my intention to start a religious debate. I am, however, 
> having a difficult time finding much of anything about these two mua 
> modes on the net.  I have used various gui clients in the past but they 
> seem bent on ever increasing bloat.  Nor am I a fan of webmail. Mutt 
> would be my default "go to" TUI based mua but figured I'd investigate 
> mail in emacs. I need to manage multiple IMAP accounts with lots of 
> folders. I store my mail server side so I can access from multiple 
> machines - typically workstations with 24x7 connections. Hence offline 
> imap stores, pop, maildir, usenet, etc. are pretty much not even on my 
> radar. I prefer my mail in ascii but also need to be able to view 
> html'ized nonsense and open various attachments.  My background is as a 
> sysadmin rather than programmer and I don't want to have to become an 
> e/lisp expert just to get my mua configured. I've also only recently 
> switched to emacs so there's still a big learning curve ahead.
> 
> Mew appears to be more actively maintained and has better documentation 
> but it also appears that Wanderlust may be preferred of the two. Perhaps 
> because of MH support and allegedly superior IMAP support.  Such 
> references are pretty dated, however, so I don't know how relevant to 
> current times. Mew and Wanderlust otherwise appear to be pretty similar 
> and I'd appreciate it if someone would compare and contrast their 
> differences and similarities in the context of my use case.
> 
> TIA-- Ken

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Jeffrey M. Roth, Ph.D ~ Advanced Lasercom Systems and Operations Group ~
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