Mail Clients and Utilities

Procmail

Accessing: Procmail is available at /usr/local/bin/procmail.
Support level: 5
Further documentation: www.procmail.org

Procmail can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort your incoming mail into separate folders/files (real convenient when subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritising your mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival (e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation for different types of mail) or selectively forward certain incoming mail automatically to someone.

Fetchmail

Accessing: Simply type fetchmail at the command prompt (or, if necesary, /usr/local/bin/fetchmail).
Support level: 5
Further documentation: on-line

Fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, ETRN, and ODMR. It can even support IPv6 and IPSEC.

Pine

Accessing: Simply type pine at the command prompt (or, if necesary, /usr/local/bin/pine).
Support level:
Further documentation: www.washington.edu

Pine runs in text-mode and so does not require X-Windows or other graphical software, such as Web browsers. It is idea for use over slow links.

Elm

Accessing: /usr/local/bin/elm
Support level: 5 --- this software is obsolete: use Pine instead.
Further documentation: 5

A text-mode mail client.