Recommendations on Terminal based email clients with IMAP support

[Kurt Wall]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:37:18AM +1100, James McDonald wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I have been feeling cut off at work lately so I have moved my ssh port 
> and now login to home from work with putty and use 
> http://pebrot.sourceforge.net as a text based MSN client. I would also 
> like to pick up my emails via the ssh session from another host inside 
> my home network running the IMAP service.
> 
> What are your recommendations regarding terminal based mail clients with 
> IMAP support?
> 
> I tried exported X sessions using gaim and mozilla-mail but they are too 
> slow across the 256KB link I'm sharing.

I've like Mutt quite well for precisely these sorts of uses. Pine is
also capable, but Mutt seems faster to me.

Kurt