I've got Mutt going with Gmail along the lines of Steve Losh's advice http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/
It works great. Very fast, and it's nice to have a local backup of my email.
It works great. Very fast, and it's nice to have a local backup of my email.
Also, one advantage of this is that changes are real-time which means that if I check the gmail app on my phone messages are correctly moved, marked as read etc.
I still haven't found any setup that beats it.