I still use the command-line mail client mutt to handle my mail. One of mutt's advantages is the wide range of keyboard commands you can use to do various useful tasks. Here's a selection of the ones I use regularly.
Read more »Dealing With Mail in Mutt
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Using Gmail with mutt, the minimal way (IMAP update)
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As Gmail has IMAP access, it is fairly trivial to get it working with mutt. And who wants to leave the command line when they don't have to? Vim as an email composer? Sign me up.
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Using Secure Mutt Connections with IMAPS
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Mutt is a text based email client that is both powerful and has a lot of features,some of which you will not find in other mail clients. One problem that you will see with many mail clients is that they do not work easily with IMAPS, or secure IMAP. Mutt integrates easily with IMAPS and is easy to set up.
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Running Mutt inside Emacs on GNU systems
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"There are some emacs-native programs for e-mail, such as gnus, vm and a couple of others. I never really got into them for some reason; I found them rather hard to set up and a bit counter-intuitive. Maybe I should give them another try, but for the last decade, I've been using the mutt console e-mail client - even with graphical alternatives like Evolution and Thunderbird available..."
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running console programs inside emacs
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"Emacs comes with a nice terminal emulator called ansi-term. Using M-x ansi-term, you can run shells and other terminal programs from within emacs, and the emulation is good enough even for 'graphical' console programs. For example, I am using the mutt mailer and slrn news reader with ansi-term.
Read more »Getting UTF-8 working in Emacs inside a terminal SSH session
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"I can’t believe this can be so difficult! I’ve for a long time used Emacs and VM for one of a couple of email accounts. It’s great, fast and wonderful. However, Emacs VM doesn’t deal with IMAP that well and I decided last month to ditch it for Mutt [...] So now, I get full UTF-8 support as well as Emacs shortcuts when running Mutt/Emacs inside an SSH session! "
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Disabling the GMail spam filter and handling it yourself using SpamAssassin
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I've been using GMail ever since they decided to allow users to download their mail using POP. I was happy reading my email as usual in mutt. The only problem was that I had to log onto the website once in a while to clear out my spam folder and fish out the false positives.
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