Wanderlust

Wanderlust -- Yet Another Message Interface on Emacsen --

Last modified: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:13:47 JST

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Wanderlust is a mail/news reader supporting IMAP4rev1 for emacsen.

Introduction
Features
Screen shots
Download
CVS
Documentation
FAQ
Environment
Mailing list
Links

1. Introduction

For those who read emails on multiple client machines such as desktop computer at home, a workstation at office, and a notebook computer while traveling, it is hard to share emails once they download emails to the client machine. For example, if you download emails to your desktop computer at home, you cannot read those emails on a workstation at office.

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) provides a smart solution for this problem. It permits a client email program to access to emails on the shared mail server.

The goal of Wanderlust, a mail and news client program on Emacsen, is to manage messages effectively by use of the IMAP.

2. Features

The main features of Wanderlust are following.

Implementation in elisp only (not true in recent version).
Support of IMAP4rev1, NNTP, POP(POP3/APOP), MH, Shimun,...you name it.
Integrated access to messages based on original folder specification.
Key bindings and mark processing like Mew.
Interactive threading.
Management of unread messages.
Marks are fully customizable.
Folder mode to manage subscribed folders.
Message cache, Disconnected Operation.
MH-like FCC (FCC: %Backup is possible).
Support of MIME (by SEMI).
Draft editing of mail and news as a same interface.
Icon based interface for the list of Folder.
Keep large message parts unfetched on IMAP4.
Server side search (IMAP4), also Japanese support.
Virtual folder that can treat multiple folders as one folder.
Filter folder (aka. Search folder).
Compression Folder.
Automatic expiration of old messages.
Auto refile.
Message Template.
Scoring: automatically mark or hide messages by measuring importance.
Fully customizable summary view.
Integration of namazu.
Integration of ACAP.
Integration of LDAP.
Spam filter which supports multiple spam-filtering method.

3. Screen shots

Here are some screen shots.

XEmacs (45k)
XEmacs -nw (15k)
Mule2.3@19.28 (18k)
Mule for Win32 (20k)
Nemacs 3.3.2(103k)
Emacs 21 (Namazu & Shimbun feature)(90k)

4. Download

You can get current version from ftp.gohome.org (primary site)

contributed mirror ftp/http sites:

ftp.jaist.ac.jp
Elips
ring server project (http)
ring server project (ftp)
opaopa.org

Packages:

FreeBSD Ports
Debian Package
Linux RPM

5. CVS

Development of Wanderlust uses CVS. So latest developing version is available at CVS.

cvs login (first time only)

    % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root login

    CVS password: [CR] # NULL string

checkout

    % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root checkout wanderlust

If you would like to join CVS based development, please send mail to

	cvs@cvs.m17n.org

with your account name and your public key for ssh. cvsroot is :ext:cvs@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root. If you cannot use ssh, please send UNIX /etc/passwd style crypted password. you can commit with the cvsroot :pserver:<accountname>@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root. We hope you will join the open development.

Web

You can access CVS via following http site. cvs.m17n.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/wanderlust/

Snapshot

You can download snapshots of CVS via following http site.
ftp://ftp.jpl.org/wl/snapshots/ ( by hand:Special thanks to <yamaoka@jpl.org>)
or
cvs.m17n.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/wanderlust/ ( on the fly)

6. Documentation

See Wanderlust Manual to get more details.

Wanderlust manual version 2.12.2 (by texi2html)

See INSTALL file in the package to get information about installation.

Sample setting files:

~/.wl sample
~/.folders sample
~/.addresses sample

7. FAQ

Please check FAQ before send questions to the mailing list.

Wanderlust FAQ

(The page is written by Wiki. You can add/edit the page.)

8. Environment

Confirmed environment

imapd

Cyrus imapd-1.4
Cyrus imapd-1.5.14
UW imap-4.7
AIR MAIL server
Express Mail
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5
Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0

Emacs

Mule-2.3@19.34
Mule for Win32
Meadow-1.01 or later
NTEmacs 20.4 or later
Emacs 20.3 or later
XEmacs-20.4 or later

MIME module

Before installing Wanderlust, please install the MIME module called SEMI. Version 1.14.3 or later is required.

You need packages named APEL and FLIM to use SEMI.Recommended combination of APEL, FLIM and SEMI are following.

APEL 10.6, FLIM 1.14.6, SEMI 1.14.6

You can also use many other FLIM/SEMI variants. Combination of the latest versions should work.

9. Mailing list

Wanderlust Mailing List (wl@lists.airs.net) archive & search
discuss about Wanderlust (mainly Japanese is used)
Wanderlust English List (wl-en@lists.airs.net) archive & search
discuss about Wanderlust (English only). Messages sent to this list are automatically forwarded to wl@lists.airs.net.

We hope you report to the mailing list in following case:

If you found bug.
If you made patch.

(Special thanks to Takuro KITAME <kitame@northeye.org>)

10. Links

Translation:

Belorussian translation

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