Mutt

From Grokdoc

Mutt is an advanced, text only mail client. If you do not need to write HTML email and are frustrated by how impotent other email clients are, then perhaps mutt is for you.

Mutt is also an invaluable tool for anyone administering or authoring software that interacts with imap servers. It has very powerful searching, pattern matching and mailbox handling.

Mutt is distinguished by;

• Its keyboard oriented nature
• All features customizable via the muttrc
• macros and action hooks
• Very solid imap[s] support
• Lightweight nature
• Works very well with screen.

Easy to use for those who are not afraid to try doing things in the text-only way, even newbies. It is also highly configurable, and so newbies might find it interesting to eventually modify their configuration and settings as they learn more about Linux.