| From: Giles Orr <gilesorr@gmail.com> | I used mutt for a year or so (a decade ago), but configuring it always | required a huge amount of reading, editing text files, cursing, and | rinse and repeat. While vim is arguably the same, I found the rewards | greater - so I continue to use vim but these days I use Gmail's web | interface rather than mutt. alpine is a reasonable and reasonably simple "command line" mail user agent. Much simpler than mutt and much less powerful. I've been using it for about 20 years. There might well have been a better choice that appeared during that time. I run my own mail server at home (for more than 30 years) partly to avoid giving control of my mail to third parties like Google. I admit that this is somewhat quixotic.