On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:08:16AM -0600, Jay Kline wrote:
> I read almost all my mail sitting at my desk where I have Xwindows, and thus 
> I use Kmail because I like it.  However, once and a while I need to access my 
> mail from remote, and all I have availible to me is vnc (yuck) or ssh.  Is 
> there a decent console mail client that is compatable with Kmail's storage? I 
> need this more for reading existing email than downloading new messages or 
> sending mail.  I am not 100% sure about the format Kmail uses (mbox ?) so if 
> anyone knows that, I can try to find someting on my own too.

It looks like kmail uses mbox format, so pretty much any
command-line mail reader should work.  Let me suggest you try
mutt. Others prefer pine, so you might want to give that a try as
well, but mutt is better ;).

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