Mew still under development?

[Werner LEMBERG]

Folks,


is Mew still under development? Is Mew maintained at all? I get the
impression that mails with improvement suggestions or something
similar disappear in the great nirvana...

For example, the one-liner

https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/Mew/pull/100

hasn't been applied since more than a year...


Werner

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

From: Werner LEMBERG (mailto:w...@gnu.org)
Date: 23 December 2017 at 08:33:29

> is Mew still under development? Is Mew maintained at all?

That's a good question. Perhaps it is unmaintained because nobody is using it, except you and a few diehards? Myself, I succumbed to the scourge of HTML mail quite a long time ago, adopted a GUI mail client, and stopped using Mew. (I just haven't got around to getting off the mailing list.) I loved Mew while I still used it, but like it or not (and I don't), the email standard of today is HTML, not plain text, and resisting this just became too painful in the long run.

– Harald

[Harri Kiiskinen]

From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <han...@runbox.no>
Subject: Re: [mew-en] Mew still under development?
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 09:52:55 +0100

> From: Werner LEMBERG (mailto:w...@gnu.org)
> Date: 23 December 2017 at 08:33:29
>
>> is Mew still under development? Is Mew maintained at all?
>
> That's a good question. Perhaps it is unmaintained because nobody is using it, except you and a few diehards?

The question is indeed interesting. I've been using Mew for several
years, and am mostly very happy with it. The html-scourge hasn't hit
me particularly bad, most emails I get are either still pure text or
then the html-parsing in Mew is so good that I only rarely get mails I
can't fathom out with Mew.

The main advantage to me has been that Mew works inside Emacs, and
since I do most of my planning and research in Emacs anyway, it is
very handy to be able to read email within Emacs, too. And Mew is
still very efficient to use, and my occasional experiences with MS
Outlook mail in various academic enviromements have shown, that Mew is
still much more effective when you only need to handle mail (calendars
and meetings are a different beast altogether).

But since the development is of course a matter of interest and
resources of the main developer himself, for the future, it might be
interesting to hear from the Mr. Yamamoto himself.

Harri

[Kazu Yamamoto]

Hello Werner,

> is Mew still under development? Is Mew maintained at all? I get the
> impression that mails with improvement suggestions or something
> similar disappear in the great nirvana...

I'm using Mew. I would like to maintain Mew for my purpose such as
catching new versions of Emacs and OSes. But I have no time to add new
features. I would try to release a new version of Mew once a year.

--Kazu

[Chan Wilson]

I have been a happy mew-user for many years now, after migrating off the mh.el (mh-e.el? I forget) from earlier MH days.  Started on an SGI Irix system, migrated over to Linux and for the last several years have been pretty satisfied with Aquamacs + Mew under OSX, usually against a Gmail setup.

Thank you, Kazu, for all your work over the years to maintain Mew.  It is very much appreciated from this cold frozen part of the midwest north americas. :-)

Happy New Year!

--Chan