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prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:

> i'm thinking of doing my email with emacs (using claws-mail right now).
> i need imap.
>
> so far i've looked at 
>
> nmh - got it to work locally, but don't know how to do imap
>
> wl - got imap access (even got it to read gmail), but find things
> confusing
>
> mailutils - don't really know where to start in the documentation
>
> any comments on these packages or suggestions on what else to look at?

What I do is use fetchmail to pull the mail from the server
to the local mail spool.

Then any Emacs mail client works.
I've used MH-E and GNUS.

Since I have years of mail history in MH folder format
I've only tried the 2 clients that do mh.