On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Mark Wickens wrote: standard email clients but would also like to be able to ssh into a local box and read mail via a character terminal. I do both. I run Linux/Postfix and OpenVMS/PMDF. I can SSH into my Linux box and then check my mail with (al)pine (like I am doing now) and also telnet into my Alpha and read the mail with MAIL or PINE that is included with PMDF. Fred