Mail, please.

[Greg Newby]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 09:54:11AM +1000, 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.

You'll want a text editor with that.  vi is already there, or get vim.  Or use nano or pico if you don't like features.  Or use cat, if you are really cool.

If you decide to use emacs (not so lightweight), you can also use emacs mail within emacs, rather than getting a separate mail client.

For a few extra features, use "M-x butterfly" in emacs.  https://xkcd.com/378/
  - Greg