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_8 wanderlust
82 You can also view CVS repository via
84 http://cvs.m17n.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/wanderlust/
86 If you want to receive CVS commit log via e-mail, send empty mail to
88 cvs-info-help@cvs.m17n.org
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 If you cannot use ssh, please send UNIX /etc/passwd style crypted
100 password. You can commit with the cvsroot
101 :pserver:<accountname>@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root.
103 We hope you will join the open development.
107 [1] M. Crispin, "INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1", RFC 2060,
109 [2] B. Kantor and P. Lapsley, "Network News Transfer Protocol: A
110 Proposed Standard for the Stream-Based Transmission of News", RFC
112 [3] J. Myers, M. Rose, "Post Office Protocol - Version 3", RFC 1929, 1996.
113 [4] "Mew -- Messaging in the Emacs World",
114 (Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Mew developing team.)
115 Available from http://www.mew.org/.
116 [5] "tm -- MIME package for GNU Emacs",
117 (Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996 MORIOKA Tomohiko)
118 Latest tm package is available from
119 ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/elisp/