I've been looking into getting yet another mail client. I never seem to be happy with the ones I come across these days. I've gone from Outlook to Sylpheed-Claws to Evolution to (currently looking). Here are a few that have taken my fancy:

• mutt: This is a well-known ncurses client. Read its homepage for more. The only downside I can see in it for me is the requirement to set up an MTA on the computer, which I don't really want to be attached to..
• elmo: This must be a fork of mutt from some point. Its main advantage is the disadvantage of mutt- it doesn't require a MTA on the same computer and can connect to a remote SMTP server.
• pine: Actually, yet to checkout..

You may have noticed the console-basedness of these clients. Yes, I like the console and if I had a ncurses mail client then I could get my MSN, IRC (both run through irssi and screen of course, and bitlbee for MSN) and email all from SSH anywhere. That is, unless the following events occur (this only applies to IRC and probably email if I do run it from home, as MSN is run elsewhere):

1. Mum switches on the iron and presses the wrong button
2. The trip-switch is flicked (is that the correct verb?!) and the power goes off. Of course it is switched back on pronto but the server is now down
3. Either: the server isn't switched back on and therefore I can't connect to it obviously, or the server is switched back on but the no-ip dynamic update client doesn't load (I should really fix this instead of blogging about it, especially as it's so easy to fix!) and therefore I don't know the IP address..

As I write this, I am listening to: Adagio, Underworld