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Re: WL main page on emacs wiki



At Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:55:54 -0800,
Erik Hetzner wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The WL main page on the Emacs wiki is the second google result for
> [wanderlust emacs]. I do not find the quickstart guide very
> useful. (for example, you should not edit your ~/.folders file, it
> discusses ~/.mailcap which is a little advanced, it gives no
> information about how to format folder entries, etc.)
>
> I hope to spend a little time re-working it. Any thoughts?

+1 for a rework of the EmacsWiki page.  Maybe we could define the goal
of a quickstart guide to be as follows: After following the steps
outlined in the guide the reader is capable of reading messages in a
single IMAP account and sending messages via SMTP.  Reading and
sending messages includes dealing with MIME messages.

Things to cover for this:

 - download and install WL and the required libraries
 - setting up folders w/o touching folders, maybe with a quick note
   about relative (elmo-*-default-*) and absolute folder notation.
 - setting up a SMTP connection
 - adding attachments
 - reading attachments (view, play, mime-situations, mailcap)

The main entry page should rather link to a quickstart guide and (if
present) other topics of general interests (out of my head): message
filters (filter and multi folders), multiple mail identities, known
glitches and bugs.

Best,
  -- David
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