On 9/12/16 4:54 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:29:09PM -0000, Liam E. wrote:

What is the most minimal setup for command-line mail on a system like Debian?

"MUA and POP retriever."

For ultra lightweight, use bsd-mailx

For features, use alpine or mutt

For retriever, getmail or mpop. Fetchmail is way too slow.

I always use imap, for many reasons, including using multiple client machines simultaneously while keeping the authoritative version on the server. Use an imap backup to mbox files, which does efficient delta updates, then a local client on those.

sdw