[ale] good imap mail client?

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Michael D. Hirsch writes:
 > > Michael D. Hirsch typeth:
 > > 
 > > >I suddenly find that I need to read mail from several different servers
 > > >from several different machines.  It seems clear to me that IMAP is the
 > > >right way to go.  I can keep all my mail folders on one, or several,
 > > >servers.  POP seems way too restrictive.
 > > >
 > > >Can y'all recommend a decent IMAP client?  I have to say that netscape
 > > >seemed really klunky.  On a sun I can use dtmail, though I'd rather use
 > > >the same client on every machine and the others are all linux.
 > > >
 > > >Ideally, of course, I could find an IMAP client for emacs, but I haven't
 > > >seen one, yet :)
 > > 
 > > I'm pretty sure that recent versions of vm
 > > (http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/) support imap. I haven't tried out the
 > > imap support, though.
 > 
 > My understanding is that IMAP is supported, bot only in a POP fashion.  For
 > instance, you can only save letters locally, not on the server.  I really need
 > to store on the server since I not only have several mailboxes, I read them
 > from a variety of locations.
 > 
 > I would love to use vm, so please tell me I'm wrong.

I don't know much about this topic, but I do know that 
if you like text mode, pine works well as an IMAP client.
Emacs (or Xemacs) doesn't work with imap by itself, but you can use
'fetchmail' with it (but I don't think you get the 'folders on the
server' deal with that either)


-Eric.