Command line email software

[Nefarious]

I want to setup an auto download of a mail box that works at the command line (so that I can administer it remotely and because my CentOS wont load X windows).

Suggestions??

 

[Nefarious]

But can they be set to run in the background or by cron or similar?

It's supposed to be an email repository where a copy of everyone's emails goes to, so it needs to automatically download the contents otherwise they'll overflow.

 

[Nefarious]

Thanks for the help, I went for getmail in the end as the internet told me to and I'm frightened of disobeying it as it knows all.

I'm looking into a way of transparently compressing the mail folders as they have already grown to freakish proportions and I'm worried that it'll reach a Logan's Run style crisis and the computer will become confused and explode.

Does anyone have experience with Squirrel Mail? I was wondering if it was happy to run from the command line with remote administration via a web portal.