[mew-release 00068] Mew 2.0

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

Hi all, 

We are pleased to inform you that Mew 2.0 is finally available. We
planned to release it as Mew 1.95. But since its implementation is
different from Mew 1.94 very much, we named it Mew 2.0.

Mew 2.0 is independent from IM. Most parts of it are written in Elisp.
This means Mew 2.0 is MUCH faster than Mew 1.94 since we can avoid
Perl overhead. Moreover, Mew 2.0 achieves true multilingual because we
need not to implement character set stuff in Perl.

Please note that Mew works only on Emacs 20.7 or later (including
Emacs 21) and XEmacs 21.1.11 or later. If you are using older Emacsen,
we strongly encourage you to migrate to one of them. It's not a tough
job.

Attached is a part of 00diff. You can find many new features including
threading, 8bit clean SMTP, etc. We hope that Mew 2.0 is worth waiting
and are sorry for keeping you waiting for a long time.

Lastly, our deep thank goes to those who make this possible. Enjoy!

	// Mew developing team

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	       <Differences between Mew 2 and Mew 1.94>

* Mew 2 has thrown away Emacs 19, Mule 2.3, XEmacs 20.4.

* Mew 2 has thrown away IM and is being implemented purely by Elisp
  with two C commands, 'mewencode' and 'mewls'.

* Thread is supported. The key bindings of most thread commands 
  start with "t". For example, typing "tt" makes thread.

* Both Multipart/Alternative and Multipart/Related are supported.
  Use ":" to display the entire structure.

* Sophisticated POP support. POP biff is supported.

* 8bit clean. If mew-use-8bit is non-nil, 8bit charset in a body is
  sent without any MIME encoding(i.e. CTE: 8bit).  If this is nil,
  8bit charset in a body is sent with an appropriate MIME
  encoding(e.g. CTE: quoted-printable).  Also, 8bit messages to be
  attached are converted into 7bit.

  8bit messages to be signed are also converted into 7bit. This is
  required by the Multipart/Signed spec.

  mew-use-8bit is nil by default to avoid accidents.

* Preview. Typing C-cC-m in Draft mode puts the composed message to
  +queue. You can preview messages to be send in +queue with 
  Summary mode.	

  If you are in Summary mode, typing C-cC-c sends all messages in
  +queue. "i" in Summary mode also flushes all messages in +queue
  since mew-auto-flush-queue is default to t.

  Typing C-cC-c in Draft sends the draft without preview.

* MIME editor. Typing "E" (i.e. reediting) in Summary mode leads you
  Draft mode. If the target is multipart, attachments are prepared.

* In attachments, you can specify charset both for input and output.
  "C" specifies the charset parameter for a Text/* object.  
  "I" specifies a input coding-system for a text file.

* Header mode is created for resending and sending the same content
  to different destinations.

* C-cC-l makes use of autoconf of a specified language.

* Mew 2 is liberal for many kinds of broken messages.
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