As far as GUI programs go, xbuffy is great (and doesn't have a problem with unread messages that aren't new.) It surely wouldn't be too hard to write a curses or even simply text front end to its mailbox code (which is the hard part.) Note that I'm not volunteering to do this, though.
-Daniel -- Daniel E. Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms." --Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"