RE: IMAP mail readers?

[robert@xxxxxxxxx (robert)]

I still use mush (Mail Users SHell).  I use fetchmail (on Linux) to grab
it and throw it into a local /var/spool/mail and then read it that way.

fetchmail supports IMAP and POP (both 2 and 3).  Fantastic program.

(Noelle asks "What's wrong with pine?  I'm pine and proud!".)

I still use mush 'cause it's the only one that still allows me to use my
reactive keyboard (character prediction); neither pine nor mutt allow me
to do that.  Oh, and mush now has MIME support.

 > From: Jonathan Payne <jpayne@xxxxxxxxx>
 > Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:05:34 -0800
 >
 > Wake up and join the rest of us in the new millenium, and use netscape to
 > read your mail on UNIX. ;-)
 > 
 > JP
 > 
 > PS: I use Outlook.  What a piece of junk!  Just don't click any
 > attachments...
 > 
 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: Brian [mailto:bh@xxxxxxxxx]
 > > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 10:01 AM
 > > Subject: IMAP mail readers?
 > > 
 > > The powers that be have decided that as of 1/1/02 we can't 
 > > NFS-mount the
 > > mail server any more and must instead use the IMAP protocol 
 > > to retrieve
 > > mail.  So:
 > > 
 > > 1.  For the first few days of January I may be less than perfectly
 > > responsive to email!
 > > 
 > > 2.  Does anyone have a suggestion for a nice non-GUI, non-MIME,
 > > non-virus-friendly *nix IMAP mail reader?  The perfect response would
 > > be a program that grabs my mail every so often and puts it in 
 > > /var/mail/bh
 > > on my local machine, so I could just keep on using good old mail(1) to
 > > read my mail.  But I suppose I could learn something new so long as it
 > > isn't Pine and doesn't require X windows.