Email Opinions

Current hip IMAP clients include mulberry, gnus nnimap, tkrat, and pine. mulberry exists only for windows/macos now, linux port soon, and supports kerberos for delicious security. it's the andrew-side favorite. In particular, mulberry is pretty usable over slow PPP even with large mailboxes because it doesn't suck down the whole mailbox whenever you log in. netscape does a little dance on every message in the mailbox whenever you connect, making it useless over slow lines. At least it used to.

MH:
Old and clunky but scales reliably. Emacs versions less clunky, but still slow.

"VM: I fear having all my mail in one big file that emacs must load in at once and is at its liberty to corrupt. I'm paranoid that way. If you haven't been scarred by bogus emacs v18 RMAIL bugs, you may be calmer". BTW netscape, eudora, outlook etc all basically work in the one big file way.

gnus: "Tough to configure"

Eudora: Synchronization trouble, also known as the devil spawn.

Netscape: Unacceptably crashy. It has its "hip" client supporters, whereas others say "netscape's imap client is much goofier and has some serious problems compared to mulberry". Mozilla will obviously fix all.