5.1.1 Summary Content

In the summary mode, messages are displayed like following.

  377  09/16(Wed)11:57 [+1: Takuro Kitame  ] Bug?
  381  09/17(Thu)00:16 [+3: Fujikazu Okuni ] elmo-lha.el -- LHA interface
  384  09/17(Thu)01:32 [+1: Yuuichi Terani ] wl-0.6.2
  389 N09/18(Fri)01:07 [+2: Yuuichi Terani ] wl-0.6.3

Each line displays:

Message number, Temporal mark, Persistent mark, Date, Sender, Subject

If you want to know how to change the format for this, please refer the section format of Summary lines. See section 5.6 Format of summary lines.

Message number is the message's unique number in the folder. In the NNTP folder, it is article number, in the IMAP folder, it is UID and in the MH folder, it is the filename of the message.

Temporal mark and Persistent mark are described later.

Date is displayed like `Month/Day(Week Day')Hour:Minute. Default setting displays week day in Japanese, but if you want to display it in English, set the value of wl-summary-weekday-name-lang as `en'.

Sender's indentation corresponds to the depth of the thread. Sender name is displayed as nickname if it is defined in the address book. Set wl-use-petname as nil, if you want to quit displaying with nickname.

If number is printed at the head of Sender part like `+2', that means the message have 2 follow messages.

Subject is the `Subject:' header field of the message. If the message have same `Subject:' with the parent message, it is not displayed. Some mailing list puts its sequence number in the `Subject:' field, but it is ignored. wl-summary-no-subject-message is displayed when the message has empty subject field.