My other email client is a daemon

I have a slight problem wherein every time I start up a game of NetHack, I completely lose touch with my surroundings for hours on end. ThankfullyThe DevTeam Thinks Of Everythingand there's a solution that allows communication with the outside world without breaking immersion: the mail daemon!

If compiled with-DMAILandOPTIONS=mailis set in your runtime configuration (the default on Linux), NetHack will periodically check a user specified mbox file (MAIL) for new mail, and upon receiving an email a mail daemon will spawn in and deliver a scroll of mail to the player. Upon reading this scroll a mail program (MAILREADER) will be executed, which hopefully allows you to read your mail.

George Huebner

I love everything about this.