You can use fetchmail to get mail from server (fetchmail-ssl for ssl pop3), 
fetchmail copy mail in local mailbox.
and after you can read your mail with :
  - sylpheed for exemple (GTK interface)
  - mutt in text mode

You must configure the two mail client for use the same directory.
> 
> Here's what I'd like to have: a mail client that I can access via a
> nice, flashy GUI when I'm sitting at my desk, or via a simple
> text-mode interface when I'm connecting remotely.
> 
> Actually, it's my wife I'm primarily thinking about.  She uses our
> computer at home (Debian, natch) to read/send mail using Netscape.
> She also occasionally connects from her parents' house, or from work
> using ssh and getting a simple shell (text) interface.  Right now, she
> uses pine for this, but this sucks because:
> 
>  * netscape slurps up all read mail into its own 'nsmail' directory,
>    so she can only read new mail
> 
>  * netscape and pine don't (can't?) share addressbooks, so they either
>    get out of sync, or require more attention than one would like to
>    offer them
> 
> I have been looking for such a beast, without any luck.  Gnus works
> pretty well for me, but as I'm trying to *stay* married, I'm unwilling
> to inflict Gnus on my wife at this time.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> -- 
> 
> joe
> 
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    Julien LEMOINE
  EPITA - Promo 2004
   Debian/GNU Addict
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