Wanderlust

Jul 20, 2023

Mail and news system for Emacs

Wanderlust is a mail/news agent on Emacs/XEmacs.

The features of Wanderlust are as follows

  • Implementation in elisp only.
  • Support of IMAP4rev1, NNTP, POPPOP3/APOP and MH format.
  • Integrated access to messages based on Folder Specifications like Mew.
  • Key bindings and mark processing like Mew.
  • Management of threads and unread messages.
  • Folder mode that displays all folder you read.
  • Message cache, Disconnected Operation.
  • MH-like FCC FCC Backup is possible.
  • Support of MIME by SEMI or tm.
  • Draft editing of mail and news as a same interface.
  • Icon based interface for the list of Folder XEmacs.
  • Non-fetched operations for a big message part of MIME IMAP4.
  • Server side search IMAP4, also various charset support.
  • Virtual Folder.
  • Compression Folder.
  • Automatic expiration of old messages.


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  • Xfce4-mailwatch-plugin - Mail notification applet for the Xfce panel
  • Xfaces - Display shaped icons for mail spool contents
  • Xcite - Exciting Cite for any Mail/News reading modes on Emacs
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