2 Wanderlust -- Yet Another Message Interface on Emacsen
3 by Yuuichi Teranishi <teranisi@gohome.org>
6 Wanderlust is a mail/news management system with IMAP4rev1 support for Emacs.
10 * Implementation in elisp only.
11 * Support of IMAP4rev1 [1], NNTP [2], POP(POP3[3]/APOP), MH and Maildir.
12 * Integrated access to messages based on Folder Specifications like Mew[4].
13 * Key bindings and mark processing like Mew.
14 * Management of threads and unread messages.
15 * Folder mode to select and edit subscribed folders.
16 * Message cache, Disconnected Operation.
17 * MH-like Fcc (Fcc: %Backup is possible).
18 * Full support of MIME (by SEMI).
19 * Draft editing of mail and news as a same interface.
20 * Icon based interface for the list of Folder (XEmacs and Emacs 21).
21 * Skip fetching of a large message part of MIME(IMAP4).
22 * Server side searching (IMAP4), internationalized searching is available.
25 * Automatic expiration of old messages.
35 See INSTALL to install.
39 Wanderlust Official web page is available at:
41 http://www.gohome.org/wl/.
43 You can get latest Wanderlust version from there.
47 Via the Wanderlust ML, we discuss about Wanderlust, announce the latest
50 Wanderlust Mailing List <wl@lists.airs.net>
52 In this list, Japanese is mainly used for discussion. We also have a list
53 for discussion in English:
55 Wanderlust List in English <wl-en@lists.airs.net>
57 (NOTE: messages posted to the latter are also forwarded to the former)
59 To subscribe, send mail to wl-ctl@lists.airs.net (or send mail to
60 wl-en-ctl@lists.airs.net for English list), with '# guide' as the message
65 Development of Wanderlust uses CVS. So latest developing version is
68 (0) cvs login (first time only)
70 % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root login
72 CVS password: [CR] # NULL string
76 % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root checkout wanderlust
78 To get Wanderlust from stable branch, do following instead of above
80 % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root checkout -r wl-2_14 wanderlust
82 You can also view CVS repository via
84 http://cvs.m17n.org/viewcvs/root/wanderlust/
86 If you want to receive CVS commit log via e-mail, follow instructions in
92 If you would like to join CVS based development, please send mail to
96 with your account name and your public key for ssh. cvsroot is
97 :ext:cvs@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root.
99 We hope you will join the open development.
103 [1] M. Crispin, "INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1", RFC 2060,
105 [2] B. Kantor and P. Lapsley, "Network News Transfer Protocol: A
106 Proposed Standard for the Stream-Based Transmission of News", RFC
108 [3] J. Myers, M. Rose, "Post Office Protocol - Version 3", RFC 1929, 1996.
109 [4] "Mew -- Messaging in the Emacs World",
110 (Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Mew developing team.)
111 Available from http://www.mew.org/.
112 [5] "tm -- MIME package for GNU Emacs",
113 (Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996 MORIOKA Tomohiko)
114 Latest tm package is available from
115 ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/elisp/