[mew-int 2250] Re: installing mew-5.1 on Debian testing - solution in Debian

[Tatsuya Kinoshita]

On December 29, 2006, [mew-int 2249],
joseph.vidal-rosset (at univ-nancy2.fr) wrote:

> I wanted to use mew-5.1 in order to get the Spotlight on new messages.
> If I do not mistake. I used mew-4 with prom-mew because I use also
> fetchmail + procmail. 
> But I have not still succeed to see if mew-5.1 can give improvements to
> such a configuration. If you can suggest me some configuration files,
> that would help me. 

Debian package prom-mew 2.00+3.2am01-1 seems to depend on Mew 3.
I don't know whether it works with Mew 4 or later.

Mew 4 or later provides the unread mark `U'.  To use the unread
mark, set mew-use-unread-mark to t.  (Default value is nil)

  (setq mew-use-unread-mark t)

By default, mew-use-unread-mark enables for only inbox folders.  To
customize, set mew-unread-mark-list.  See also the help `M-x help
RET v mew-unread-mark-list RET'.

Note that Mew doesn't provide a folder summary mode, so the unread
mark feature isn't similar to the prom-mew feature.  I think the
Mew feature assumes a small number of inbox folders.

BTW, do you know Wanderlust (Debian package wl or wl-beta)?
Wanderlust provides a folder summary mode handling unread folders,
Mew-like key-bind, and supports Mew (MH) folders, so you can use
both Mew and Wanderlust in Emacs.  (e.g. use Mew for personal
mails, use Wanderlust for group messages (mailing list,
newsgroups), use Mew for Hyper Estraier search, ...)

-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita