How to Install and Uninstall mew Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 07,2024

1. Install "mew" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install mew on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "mew" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall mew on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mew package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: mew
Priority: optional
Section: universe/mail
Installed-Size: 2328
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Tatsuya Kinoshita
Architecture: all
Version: 1:6.7-1
Replaces: mew-beta
Provides: imap-client, mail-reader, news-reader
Depends: mew-bin (>= 1:5.3), emacsen-common (>= 2.0.8), emacs | emacs24 | emacs23 | emacs22 | emacs21 | emacs-snapshot, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
Suggests: w3m-el, gnupg, gpgsm, ssh, wv, xlhtml, ppthtml, compface, netpbm, x-face-el, mu-cite, mule-ucs, bogofilter | bsfilter | spamassassin, hyperestraier, namazu2, namazu2-index-tools, mhc
Conflicts: mew-beta
Filename: pool/universe/m/mew/mew_6.7-1_all.deb
Size: 570936
MD5sum: 5a1770cf40a173b449caeffc6c222657
SHA1: 721dd2a07c763bb717c69f3e5d7ee09aee160800
SHA256: c219eaa50513ccdafaa77cc2784a5731e69e6f7c1a0417373d312441dcbea027
Description-en: mail reader supporting PGP/MIME for Emacs
Mew (Messaging in the Emacs World) is a user interface for text messages,
multimedia messages (MIME), news articles and security functionality
including PGP, S/MIME, SSH and SSL.
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The features of Mew are as follows:
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- POP, SMTP, NNTP and IMAP are supported.
- You can easily display a very complicated structured message.
- You can start to read messages before they are all fully listed.
- For refiling, default folders are neatly suggested.
- You can complete field names, e-mail addresses, receiver's names,
domain names and folder names.
- You can easily search messages with keywords etc.
- Thread, a mechanism to display the flow of messages, is supported.
Description-md5: 8fc697b142090d8f7879bd7c8688fd0f
Homepage: http://www.mew.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu