I use mutt to read IMAP over my local area network all the time.  The
only down side I know of is it can time out if you go off to some
other sub shell or something and take too long to get back.  But mutt
reads IMAP just fine for me; I use the standard BSD style mail box
files if that makes a difference.

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:14:19PM -0700, David Mandala wrote:
> My imap server stores everything in Maildirs/ so I can log in remotely
> via ssh and use mutt to read my mail if I can't access a mail client
> that can do IMAP. Works really nicely.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Davidm
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