I am now happily running Debian Linux systems both at the office and at home. When reading mail at the office I use VM within GNU emacs.
To read from home I could run an emacs on the office system displaying on the X-server at home and start up VM but that is a lot of overhead just to read a couple of messages. (Of course, when you subscribe to debian-users you never have just "a couple" of messages but ...) I would prefer to run a mail user agent under emacs on the machine at home and have it communicate with the machine at the office. As I recall I can use POP with VM but I would much prefer to use IMAP so I can store messages back in folders on the office machine. I also prefer an emacs-based MUA because my fingers "know" emacs sequences so well by now. Are there any such emacs-based MUA's that support IMAP? Does gnus do so?