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wanderlust and mew - which might be best choice for me?
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 like 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