Recommendations on Terminal based email clients with IMAP support

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:18:01PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
>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.

I've used mutt on connections as slow as 2400 baud dialup connections using
ckermit with good results.

Bill
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