I don't know that anyone is using the mh Mail program
but me, but I'm happy with it.  I made a few changes 
and bug fixes - http://swtch.com/Mail.  The major
drawback is that using mh commits you to one machine,
unless you do some clever synchronization behind 
the scenes.  I've been carrying my laptop around just to
read mail, which I hadn't done in years.  Anyway, I think
that the Mail+mh was a useful experiment but is not
a good long-term solution.

In spare cycles, I have been working on a new upas/fs
built around IMAP.  It holds all the message headers in
memory but not the bodies and attachments.  It will also
have search and moving messages between mailboxes,
so that you can run it without storing any mail locally.
(It will also cache information across runs to avoid 
re-downloading lots of stuff.)

Once all this is working it should not be hard to add back
in support for POP and local mailboxes but keep the 
other benefits.

Russ

$ 9p ls mail
---w--w--w- M 0 upas upas 0 Feb  4 09:22 ctl
d-r-xr-xr-x M 0 upas upas 0 Feb  4 09:22 Trash
d-r-xr-xr-x M 0 upas upas 0 Feb  4 09:22 .mailboxlist
d-r-xr-xr-x M 0 upas upas 0 Feb  4 09:22 Spam
d-r-xr-xr-x M 0 upas upas 0 Feb  4 09:22 P9P
d-r-xr-xr-x M 0 upas upas 0 Feb  4 09:22 'Bell Labs'
d-r-xr-xr-x M 0 upas upas 0 Feb  4 09:22 Archive
d-r-xr-xr-x M 0 upas upas 0 Feb  4 09:22 CVS
d-r-xr-xr-x M 0 upas upas 0 Feb  4 09:22 E-Biz
d-r-xr-xr-x M 0 upas upas 0 Feb  4 09:22 Sent
d-r-xr-xr-x M 0 upas upas 0 Feb  4 09:22 MIT
d-rwxrwxr-x M 0 upas upas 0 Feb  4 09:22 INBOX
$ 9p read mail/INBOX/80/info
unixdate 1139055507 Sat Feb  4 07:18:27 EST 2006
from 'New Account' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to '' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
replyto 'New Account' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
date Sat, 4 Feb 2006 04:33:56 -0800 (PST)
sender 'New Account' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
messageid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
subject XBOX 360 - Offer Confirmation #048Q-VXEC6795 for [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
type text/html
lines 64
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