1. What's Mew?

1.1 What's Mew?

This section quotes from Mew info.

Mew is a user interface for text messages, multimedia messages(MIME), news articles and security functionality including PGP, SSH and SSL.

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

The features of Mew version 3.1 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 cannot live without this feature).
In Draft mode, you can complete field names, Email addresses, receiver's names, 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 verify a PGP signature. While a user read a message, Mew processes the next message so as to display the next message faster. Analyzed messages are cached for a while.
You can give a single view for multiple folders.
Thread, a mechanism to display the flow of messages, is supported.

1.3 May I have two kitty's name?

Brown one is kiki, Black one is jiji.

1.4 How is 'Mew' written in hieroglyph?

According to Dr. Champollion, Mew written in hieroglyph is like that.

1.5 I hear that Mew runs around in London

One glance is enough("Mew bus" in Japanese (hiragana and katakana) on the side of the bus).

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