[CentOS] mail tools preferences?

My problem with Evolution is that it's not a mail tool, it's "a
personal information management application" (their words).  I don't
want a calendar and I only barely want an address book; I do want
something that operates without a server daemon (other than SMTP),
against a local-disk-only mail store; and I want to be able to access
that mail store from a command-line MUA.

Admittedly I haven't tried a recent version of Evolution, because I
hated it so much the last time.