Lars asks:

> does anybody happen to know about (or have experience with)
>  eMail clients that can be run on a plain old terminal (no GUI)
>  to access an existing (shudder) MS Exchange SMTP server by POP
>  or IMAP protocols? Maybe some in freeware land that have been
>  ported to MPE/iX already?
>
>  Bonus points, if it has German language user interface (or can
>  be localized with reasonable effort, ideally non-programming).
>
>  I heard about Pine or Mutt (no idea re German language) but
>  do not have any experience in this regard. So I'd be happy to
>  hear from users of those or other packages.

By chance, I was giving serious consideration to putting e-mail capabilities
into QCTerm a month or so ago, but I dismissed the idea, saying, "Nawww,
there's a thousand other ways to do e-mail nowadays; it probably wouldn't
even be used all that much."

In the semi-seriously proposed QCTerm e-mail enhancement, the e-mail would be
an auxiliary screen to the terminal's primary screen. E-mail might well come
from an HP3000 server, but it could just as easily come from any other server
as well. In this design, the termulator's screen would be connected to an
HP3000 in Australia, via telnet. The e-mail would be a completely independent
and separate process, with its own windows, connected to its POP server,
perhaps to a server in Canada, completely different from the telnet server.

The design I had in mind was going to be only one step up from a
steam-powered e-mail client: one font (Courier), no images, no sounds, no
variable fonts, but it would support German (actually, ISO Latin-1), to the
extent that Windows supports German. It would work much like the old Netscape
browser's e-mail used to work. Just plain and simple. I estimate that it
would only take about a month or two to put this together and get it fully
integrated into QCTerm. The question is: Would there any real demand for such
a feature?

Wirt Atmar