Astroid is a Mail User Agent. As such, all Astroid provides is a graphical interface to your email. Thus, Astroid enables you to launch actions that rely on the performance of other programs to actually fetch, sync, index, search and send your email. A suggested setup is described in the wiki.

FEATURES lightweight and fast! fully operatable by keyboard. graphical interface, inspired by sup. but allow buffers to be separeted and placed in several windows. allow several simultaneous windows. display html mail and some attachments inline. render math using MathJax syntax highlighting between triple-backtick tags (markdown style) themable and configurable built-in crypto (gpg,..) support (in progress). editors: embed vim or emacs (or anything else that supports XEmbed)