Mark Moll <mmoll(a)cs.cmu.edu&gt; writes: I'm very dubious as to the effectiveness of this. The only win would be on message parsing speed. I expect c-client would be able to do a bit better of a job than emacs at this, but in my experience, it's not that great. Where pine really wins is not in using c-client per se, but in using "virtual scrollbars". It only fetches the headers for the page you're looking at now rather than all of the pages of header info. Take a look at mutt for an example of a curses-based imap reader that doesn't do this. Take a look at various c-client based X clients to see how not to use c-client successfully for this purpose. Finally, it's been my experience that c-client is more than a bit on the ugly side. If this imap-parsing-speaking tool were to be written, it'd probably be better to write something from scratch that talks IMAP on one end and elisp on the other, rather than basing on c-client. John.