Pygmy - A GNOME mail client written in Python. Pygmy supports attachments and MIME messages, both in the message composer and in the message viewer. - http://pygmy.sourceforge.net
maildrop - mail delivery agent with filtering - Maildrop reads a mail message from standard input, then delivers the message to your mailbox. maildrop will optionally read instructions from a file, which describes how to filter incoming mail. Instructions can be provided having mail delivered to alte - http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/
Fetchmail - Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). - http://fetchmail.berlios.de/
The Fetchmail FAQ - Frequently asked questions about fetchmail. - http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html
archivemail - Python tool for detecting and compressing older e-mail messages. - http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/
BSD Vacation V2 - RFP-compliant vacation mailer, designed to replace the standard Sendmail vacation program. - http://www.weird.com/~woods/projects/BSD-vacation-v2.html
Vacation Auto-Reply (Unix) - Simple instructions for one variant of the vacation(1) program on Unix. (This doesn't appear to be the most standard version, but the general instructions look relatively ok.) - http://www.emailman.com/vacation/
Mailfilt, by Mike Fisk (Unix/Perl) - Mailfilt is a procmail-like Perl application for filtering your mail. (Last updated sometime in 1995 ...) - http://www.nmt.edu/~mfisk/style.cgi?unixtools/mailfilt.html