The default mail app that ships with Debian (... called 'mail') can't handle MIME standards, which makes sending and receiving attachments pretty hard. So, I asked around and found mutt (sudo apt-get install mutt).

It's actually a lot prettier than mail, as pretty as command line can get anyway. Other than the way it looks, it works pretty much the same, and the on screen help is good too. So, go and switch to mutt.

What other mail applications are there?