I mentioned at one of our past meetings that I had set up MUTT, the terminal-based e-mail client, with Gmail.  However, the process was just a pain for me to figure out and set up, so I kind of left it as a "novelty accomplished now back to firefox" thing.

Well, Lifehacker posted an article today that I'd wished I had a few months ago.

http://lifehacker.com/5574557/how-to-use-the-fast-and-powerful-mutt-email-client-with-gmail