Re: PGP/GPG and AOL

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> On a completely unrelated subject: do you like Wanderlust?  How does
> it compare to Gnus?  Maybe Gnus could be improved by incorporating
> features from Wanderlust?  (But maybe Wanderlust just has a completely
> different paradigm.)  I've never gotten up the energy of actually
> trying Wanderlust...

It is not as customizable as Gnus, and lacks several features Gnus has,
but it is faster, requires less memory and has a more advanced backend
design (better disconnected support with IMAP, no need to fetch big
attachments with IMAP etc).  The group buffer (or "folder buffer" with WL
terminology) is quite limited right now though.  I didn't see anything
major that Gnus didn't already have, except the more advanced backend
system and a higher commit-rate to the CVS server.

They do have a FSF-owned PGP/GPG interface though, which we probably could 
borrow.

Oh, and there is a real manual in english. :-)

APEL, FLIM, SEMI and Wanderlust is shipped with RedHat 7.2 for Emacs 20.7.
(But there is a gazillion branches of the code, so you probably want APEL 
CVS HEAD, SLIM and WEMI or some other branch instead.)