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Prom-Mew is a procmail reader for Mew on GNU Emacs.

If you want to install quickly, you shoud do following steps:

(1) add dot.emacs to your ~/.emacs file and change it suitable for your site

  % cat /usr/local/share/examples/prom-mew/dot.emacs >> ~/.emacs
  % vi ~/.emacs

(2) copy dot.procmailrc to ~/.procmailrc and change it suitable for your site

  % cp /usr/local/share/examples/prom-mew/dot.promailrc ~/.promailrc
  % vi ~/.promailrc

(3) byte-compile with "byte-comile" script if you want

  # cd /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
  # /usr/local/share/doc/prom-mew/byte_compile -l mew xemacs-mule prom-mew

Where detail specification for .emacs and .procmailrc may be shown in
/usr/local/share/doc/prom-mew/prom-usage.jis or procmail(1). And for
usage of byte_compile scripts, run byte_compile with -h option.

Run with "M-x prom-mew" in your emacs editors, Mew will be invoked and then
search unread mails from procmail log to show unread message from top of
entries that you specfied in ~/.pronmailrc.

-KIRIYAMA Kazuhiko
<kiri@pis.toba-cmt.ac.jp>