Reading & Deleting Emails

I have been attempting to use the GNU mailutils library but have had 开发者_Python百科no end of problems just getting it installed and in a state of doing the email equivalent of 'Hello world'. I am also less than impressed with the documentation.

Could anyone suggest an alternative C library to read and delete local emails on a Fedora system?

The UW-IMAP c-client works for me. http://www.washington.edu/imap/

It has some fairly good documentation, although the formatting/presentation could be better ...