Hi Peter,
Sorry for the long delay, but I've been buried with the Kepler project
(
kepler.nasa.gov).
Of course I have to recommend MH-E!
From
http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/:
MH-E is the Emacs interface to the MH mail system. It offers all
the functionality of MH, the visual orientation and simplicity of
use of a GUI, and full integration with Emacs and XEmacs,
including thorough configuration and online help.
MH-E allows one to read and process mail very quickly: many
commands are single characters; completion and smart defaults are
used for folder names and aliases. With MH-E you compose outgoing
messages in Emacs. This is a big plus for Emacs users, but even
non-Emacs users have been known to use MH-E after only learning
the most basic cursor motion commands.
Additional features include:
* attractive text rendering with font lock
* composition and display of (MIME) attachments such as photos
* display of images and HTML within the Emacs frame
* folder browsing with speedbar
* threading
* ticking messages
* lightning-fast full-text indexed searches of all of your email
* virtual folders to view ticked and unseen messages, search results
* multiple personalities
* signing and encrypting
* spam filter interaction
* XFace, Face, X-Image-URL header field support with picons
MH is Rand's Mail Handler, whose functionality is available in MH,
nmh and GNU mailutils.
There's a brief introduction and tutorial in the manual at:
http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/manual/
Here's the page of mailing lists, where you can read about the
experiences of recent converts :-):
https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=13357
