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Mew is an interface to integrate

   - Email
   - NetNews
   - MIME(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
   - PGP(Pretty Good Privacy)

and to make it easy to view and compose them. With Mew you can send a
picture of a birthday cake with the song "Happy Birthday to you" to
your friend, which is encrypted by strong cryptograph. NetNews is
supposed to be integrated in version 2.xx or later.

Mew is an acronym of "Messaging in the Emacs World". You should spell
it with the first letter capitalized and pronounce it as it
is(i.e. meow of cats). When the author started programming it, he
chose a cute word from his English dictionary. So, Mew.

The features of Mew version 1.xx are as follows:

   - You can easily display a very complicated structured
     message. What you should do to view messages is just type `SPC'.

   - If you know file operations such as copy, you can compose a very
     complicated message without any troubles.

   - You can start to read messages before the termination of listing
     of messages.

   - Since Mew preserves lists of messages in Summary mode, you can
     list up the gap between the last and current incrementally when
     you move into

   - Mew neatly guesses a default folder for refiling(Those who
     receives many messages can't live without this feature).

   - In Draft mode, you can complete field names, Email addresses,
     domain names, and folder names.

   - You can easily pick up messages which you want by specifying
     conditions such as Subject: and Date:.

   - Useful marks are provided. You can handle "encoded with uuencode
     then split" messages with one operation.

   - Mew automatically decodes a message encrypted with PGP. It also
     automatically verifies a signed message.

   - You can easily encrypt or sign a message with PGP.

   - It takes a time to analyze MIME syntax or to decode PGP. So, Mew
     caches the result for a while so that it can make faster to
     display it for the next time.

   - You can give a single view for multiple folders.

   - If you use Mew on XEmacs, you can enjoy icon-based interface
     which is equivalent to key-based interface.


Mew is officially supposed to run on Emacs 19.28 or later(including
Emacs 20.xx), Mule 2.3 or later, and XEmacs 20.3 or later(compiled
with the --with-mule option). Mew has not been tested on XEmacs 19,
however, Mew probably runs on it without or with small
modifications. Emacs other than described, such as Emacs 18, Nemacs,
Mule 1, and XEmacs 20.2 are not and will not be supported in the
future. Mew may support beta versions of Emacs but Mew conforms the
spec of official release when available.

Throughout this manual, "Emacs" means all supported platforms. "Mule"
indicates multi-lingual platforms such as Mule 2, Emacs 20, and XEmacs
20.3 complied with the --with-mule option while "Bilingual Emacs"
means English-and-Latin1 platforms including Emacs 19 and XEmacs 20.3
complied without the --with-mule option. "XEmacs" indicates graphical
platforms such as XEmacs 20.3 whereas text-only platforms are called
"Text Emacs".