[mew-int 3079] mew compared to wanderlust??

[Ken Gunderson]

Hello:

No, it's not my intention to start a religious debate. I am, however, 
having a difficult time finding much of anything about these two mua 
modes on the net.  I have used various gui clients in the past but they 
seem bent on ever increasing bloat.  Nor am I a fan of webmail. Mutt 
would be my default "go to" TUI based mua but figured I'd investigate 
mail in emacs. I need to manage multiple IMAP accounts with lots of 
folders. I store my mail server side so I can access from multiple 
machines - typically workstations with 24x7 connections. Hence offline 
imap stores, pop, maildir, usenet, etc. are pretty much not even on my 
radar. I prefer my mail in ascii but also need to be able to view 
html'ized nonsense and open various attachments.  My background is as a 
sysadmin rather than programmer and I don't want to have to become an 
e/lisp expert just to get my mua configured. I've also only recently 
switched to emacs so there's still a big learning curve ahead.

Mew appears to be more actively maintained and has better documentation 
but it also appears that Wanderlust may be preferred of the two. Perhaps 
because of MH support and allegedly superior IMAP support.  Such 
references are pretty dated, however, so I don't know how relevant to 
current times. Mew and Wanderlust otherwise appear to be pretty similar 
and I'd appreciate it if someone would compare and contrast their 
differences and similarities in the context of my use case.

TIA-- Ken