alternative to groupwise?

hi there,

I have just started working at WVU and am trying to navigate the email
system. I am used to webmail or pine and really like those for managing my
mail under linux. I have tried using groupwise to read/send my WVU email but I
hate it...don't like the format, don't like that I can't save drafts...and I
see no way to import all of my current mail folders into it. Right now I am
just forwarding all my WVU mail to my old account and checking it via webmail,
but that is not really optimal. So, I am just wondering if it is possible to
set up my linux machine to grab my WVU mail, which I can then read with pine
or (if I am ambitious) webmail. I have used linux for ages but have always had
good sysadmins to take care of these details. Any advice would be much
appreciated (and apologies for my cluelessness!)

Thanks for helping.

Maura