OK: for “real” e-mail, I persist in using the Rand Mail Handler – MH, now in its guise as NMH, with an EXMH frontend that has made life more pleasant since GUIs became common / XMH got too clunky.
Why?
Because it fits the Unix “toolkit” approach, and allows me to manipulate the vast quantity of e-mail that someone who has had the same mail address since 1992 will perforce receive. Also: in a pinch I can drive it from the commandline, using a trivial wrapper-script that I have had in several incarnations since, ooh, 1989?
However: for low-volume e-mail accounts I use Mail.app on MacOS, which although pretty is not really runnable over a slow 256k DSL link, regardless of how good Chicken of the VNC is.
So: I would like a IMAP-aware command-line mailclient, and – eschewing my other compute environment – I would like it not to be written in Elisp/EMACS unless it truly is a thin IMAP client, rather than some suck it down from the mail server, coersce it into RMAIL format, store it on disk, har har my pretty you’ll not see that IMAP server again, M-x set-current-message M-x advance-message-pointer C-h C-h ~ Z disconnect-from-imap-server abomination.
I have, in a previous life, used ELM. I found it usable, but annoying how it dealt with the distinction between read/unread mail.
What’s out there nowadays?
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