Re: wanderlust and mew - which might be best choice for me?

At Wed, 09 May 2012 13:56:02 -0600,
Ken Gunderson wrote:
> 
> 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 like 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.

Hi Ken,