Running Pine/Alpine within a Windows PowerShell

I am attempting to move most of my daily working life to a terminal shell. I am a .NET dev so I run on WinXP purely for visual studio (just wait until I get better at Emacs). I would really mu开发者_如何学编程ch like it if I could use an email client within a terminal (either using Console or PowerShell within Console).

From my uni days I know of only pine and so this is what I tried to get for windows. However, I could only find two variants, PC-Pine and Alpine for Windows. Both of these provide the mail functions I want and they can connect to my domain exchange server BUT I cannot get them to launch with the shell I am using (Console with PowerShell).

My question: Is there anyone out there running Windows that uses a console mail client that can run in PowerShell or Console2 which has the same or similar functionality to Pine?

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If you want to READ email from either the Windows CMD line or Powershell, your best bet it to try and get one of the UNIX-style Terminal email clients to work using CGYWIN as the front end. You might want to try MUTT or the Softabar CMD EMail Client but I haven't tried either one myself.

However, if all you want is SEND email, then that's easy :)

I use Powershell to send emails using the following snippit. This could very easily be put into a script or pasted into your $Profile file to allow you to send emails on the fly.

$emailFrom = "sender"
$emailTo = "recipient"
$subject = "Your subject"
$body = "Your Message"
$smtpServer = "smtp.server.com"
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($emailFrom, $emailTo, $subject, $body)

You could even wrap this in a "Send-Mail" cmdlet and call it using the parameters whenever you want, for example Send-Mail("ivan@stackoverflow","dbarrett83@stackoverflow","I answered your question","Hey man, answered you question on SO...go check it out. 'n. Talk to you later - Dan"). Just make sure to use 'n (the accent key under the tilde followed by the lowercase 'n') for line breaks.

I hope this helps!

~Dan