Reading kmail-mails from console?

Is there a tool to read mails from the console easily? I like to login with ssh remotely sometimes and it would be nice to check for new mails then. I prefered to use nmh to read mails in console but it uses a format which seems to be slightly different from whatever kmail is using. I did find a tool to convert my nmh mailbox to kde-maildir format but it's not a very convenient. A.J