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Re: Reading mail from CLI with Mutt



On 2006-08-03 08:30:28 -0400, Carl Klatsky wrote:

> OK, thanks, got lots of helpful feedback here.  When I
> referred to "character-graphics mode", I did mean curses,
> and probably should have phrased it that way.  I will check
> into the Perl modules for retrieving the mail from the IMAP
> mail server, rather than the fetchmail & procmail route.  I
> would image the Perl modules have a way to send the mail
> too, but sending mail using Mutt is real easy & direct.

I wonder if what you're looking for is basically something like
mh or nmh.

http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/

The idea there is that you don't do "mail" in some dedicated
application, but that you manipulate individual messages from
the command line.

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