1. Introduction of Wanderlust

Wanderlust is an mail/news management system on Emacsen. It supports IMAP4rev1(RFC2060), NNTP, POP and local message files.

The main features of Wanderlust:

• Pure elisp implementation.
• Supports IMAP4rev1, NNTP, POP(POP3/APOP), MH and Maildir format.
• Unified access method to messages based on Mew-like Folder Specification.
• Mew-like Key-bind and mark handling.
• Manages unread messages.
• Interactive thread display.
• Folder Mode shows the list of subscribed folders.
• Message Cache, Disconnected Operation.
• MH-like FCC. (Fcc: %Backup and Fcc: $Backup is allowed).
• MIME compliant (by SEMI).
• Transmission of news and mail are unified by Message transmitting draft.
• Graphical list of folders (XEmacs and Emacs 21).
• View a part of message without retrieving the whole message (IMAP4).
• Server-side message look up (IMAP4). Multi-byte characters are allowed.
• Virtual Folders.
• Supports compressed folder using common archiving utilities.
• Old articles in folders are automatically removed/archived (Expiration).
• Automatic re-file.
• Template function makes it convenient to send fixed form messages.