Text-based email client

Short description: Email client that does not use graphics

Screenshot of Elm

A text-based email client is an email client with its user interface being text-based, occupying a whole terminal screen. Other kind of email clients are GUI-based (cf. email client) or Web-based, see Webmail.

Text-based email clients may be useful for users with visual impairment or partial blindness allowing speech synthesis or text-to-speech software to read content to users. Text-based email clients also allow to manage communication via simple remote sessions, e. g. per SSH, for instance when it is not possible to install a local GUI-client and/or access mail via Web interface. Also users may prefer text-based user interfaces in general.

Typical features include:[1]

* Editing various emails via tab support
* Configurable rendering of various MIME types, for instance OpenPGP encryption or HTML email
* Vim-style keybindings
* Support for multiple accounts and protocols, e. g. IMAP, Maildir, SMTP, and sendmail
* UTF-8 support

## List of text-based email clients

Notable clients include:[2][3]

* aerc[4][5][1]
* Cone
* Elm
* Emacs: Gnus, mu4e, rmail, Wanderlust, Notmuch (emacs interface)[6]
* Lumail
* mblaze
* meli
* Mutt
* NeoMutt
* pine
* alpine
* sup
* vim (using a plugin[7] for himalaya)

Email software for the command line that does not occupy the whole screen (cf. TUI) include e. g. Cleancode eMail, CURL,[8] himalaya, mail (Unix), mailx, MH, procmail, sendmail, and many others.

## See also

* Text-based web browser
* Comparison of email clients

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal". 2019-06-05. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20090950.
2. ↑ Ravi Saive (2020-02-13). "7 Best Command-Line Email Clients for Linux in 2020". TecMint. https://www.tecmint.com/best-commandline-email-clients-for-linux/. "sometimes, users prefer to deal with email directly from the command-line"
3. ↑ "Use plaintext email". 2021-03-19. https://useplaintext.email/. "There are two main types of emails on the internet: plaintext and HTML. The former is strongly preferred, but often isn't set up by default. We'll get you set up right."
4. ↑ "aerc 0.1.0". June 3, 2019. https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/refs/0.1.0. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
5. ↑ "Contributions to ~sircmpwn/aerc". https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/contributors.
6. ↑ "Emacs Frontend for Notmuch". https://notmuchmail.org/doc/latest/notmuch-emacs.html.
7. ↑ "Himalaya/Vim at master · soywod/Himalaya". https://github.com/soywod/himalaya/tree/master/vim.
8. ↑ "Reading email - everything curl". https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/reademail.html.

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Email clients

Free software|

| Current|

* aerc
* Alpine
* Balsa
* Citadel/UX
* Claws Mail
* Cleancode eMail
* Cone
* Evolution
* fetchmail
* fdm
* Geary
* getmail
* GNUMail
* Gnus
* Gnuzilla
* IMP
* KMail
* Mahogany
* Mailpile
* Mailx
* Mailx (Heirloom Project)
* Modest
* Mozilla Thunderbird
* Mulberry
* Mutt
* nmh / MH
* OfflineIMAP
* Roundcube
* SeaMonkey
* SquirrelMail
* Sylpheed
* Trojitá
* YAM
* Zimbra

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Discontinued|

* Arachne
* Beonex Communicator
* BlitzMail
* Classilla
* Columbia MM
* Elm
* Eudora
* FossaMail
* Hula
* Mailody
* Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups
* Nylas N1
* Spicebird

Proprietary|

| Freeware|

* eM Client
* EmailTray
* Foxmail
* i.Scribe
* Mailbird
* Opera Mail
* Spark
* TouchMail

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Retail|

* Hiri
* Bloomba/WordPerfect Mail
* Newton
* IBM Notes
* InScribe
* Apple Mail
* Mail (Windows)
* Microsoft Outlook
* Novell GroupWise
* Airmail
* Postbox

Shareware|

* Becky!
* Eureka Email
* Forté Agent
* GyazMail
* The Bat!

Donationware|

* Pegasus Mail

Discontinued|

* Mail
* Claris Emailer
* Courier
* Cyberdog
* Cyberjack
* Embrowser
* Mailbox
* Microsoft Entourage
* Microsoft Internet Mail and News
* MINUET
* Netscape Mail
* Netscape Messenger 9
* NeXTMail
* Outlook Express
* Pine
* Pocomail
* POPmail
* Sparrow
* Turnpike
* WebSpyder
* Windows Live Mail
* Windows Mail
* Windows Messaging

Related technologies|

* Extended SMTP
* LMTP
* IMAP
* POP
* Push-IMAP
* SMAP
* SMTP
* UUCP

Related topics|

* Email
* Unicode and email

* Category
* Comparison

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