Using Gmail with claws-mail
claws-mail is certainly worth looking if you do not want to wander in frenzy of procmail, fetchmail, ssmtp and mutt.
Pretty lightweight, fast and nice support for a *lot* of features. Plugins are really good stuff. Gives a lot of flexibility. Freedom from HTML disease is soothing.
Good thing is it is snappy too.Though looks a little slow while fetching and especially during sending messages. But overall a good GUI mail client. Better than bloated Evolution and thunderbird.
thanks, trying it out now.