reccommended email client with speakup

[Jason White]

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/).