Chris Brannon <chris at the-brannons.com> wrote: > I'm also a gnus fan. It has a bit of a learning curve, but it is quite > capable. > Agreed. It supports NNTP newsgroups as well, including gmane.org. > I used to really love nmh, which is a suite of tools for mail handling. > Instead of working inside a monolithic email program, the nmh user > manipulates their email using various small shell commands. > It's a totally different paradigm. > Unfortunately, it doesn't play all that well with typical modern mail > configurations. For instance, I keep my mail on a VPS, > and I read it with IMAP, rather than pulling it down to my local machine. > If you're willing to read mail from the shell on your mail server, or > you're willing to pull it down to the local machine using getmail or > fetchmail, then nmh works beautifully. I'm in that category; I should perhaps install nmh at some point. The new tool which is starting to attract attention in the Linux community is NotMuch (http://www.notmuchmail.org/).
