Just because a user-friendly email client may take a lot of complex code to write doesn't mean the email protocol itself has to be complex! You can have full-f

Just because a user-friendly email client may take a lot of complex code to write doesn't mean the email protocol itself has to be complex! You can have full-featured, complex implementations like Gmail, more spartan implementations like mutt, and even hand-rolled email tools using things like Python's imaplib/smtplib.