Maybe you should give VMail a shot (http://danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html). I haven't tried it yet, but it looks really interesting for someone used to the Vim keyboard bindings.
He gives the example of _nmh_ for email reading. I've been trying it out all morning. I think the stock _mail_ program seems to be better (although I use alpine on the CL). I need to do extra work to see gmail messages with _nmh_ (not with mail).
>mhshow: don't know how to display any of the contents
> (content multipart/alternative in message 2)
Also, the _comp_ command for composing a mail launches vim (unable to stop that) which gives an error on what_next. I tried pico, that works.
Not sure _nmh_ is the way to go today. If I had to use the CL, I'd use _mail_ instead.
