[mew-int 3083] Re: mew compared to wanderlust??

[Ken Gunderson]

On 05/09/2012 02:48 PM, Britt Anderson wrote:
> I recently tried mew and gnus as mua's and I am now using Mutt. What I found the most important issue to be was trying to deal with my employer's Exchange Server for both IMAP and SMTP. Trying to get that set-up was the real headache. mew actually worked well getting the mail, but I had trouble with the outgoing mail. Mutt is working fine.
>
> So, my advice is that which to use may depend on the servers you are communicating with. Since Mutt has the larger user base it may be easier to find solutions to uncommon problems. And you can still use emacs as the editor.
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> But I did like my mew experience and hope to come back to it some day.

Thanks for the perspective.  As added data point, at this time I do not 
need to access any Exchange servers and I manage the IMAP and SMTP servers.

I used Mutt extensively in a former life with vi as editor.  And I would 
be happy to do so again.  I do find, however, that switching back and 
forth between vi and emacs bindings is a bit of a drag. Especially when 
I'm relative emacs newbie and trying to ditch the nasty ESC habit. Yeah, 
I know I can config Mutt to use Emacs, but lots of the other bindings 
are also 'vi like'.

I should also mention, that all other things being equal, I would like 
to use something that plays nicely with org-mode.

Curious if any here have come to Mew via Wanderlust?  I have encountered 
a few testimonials on the web from folks going from Mew to Wanderlust 
but not the converse.

Thanks to all who've replied.  Glad to see that life does exist on the 
Mew list :-)