Back in the day I wrote my own console based mail-client, scriptable with lua. It worked really well for my needs. I did dabble afterwards with some simple ut

Back in the day I wrote my own console based mail-client, scriptable with lua. It worked really well for my needs. I did dabble afterwards with some simple utilities for scripting mail, showing a list of folders, showing a list of messages in a folder, or viewing a single mail. After spending so long working on my own client I could never be enthusiastic enough to really take it much further, but for reference the tools still work, against a local Maildir hierarchy: https://github.com/skx/maildir-tools https://github.com/skx/maildir-tools