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open source terminal client for email for linux! does that exist?? (lemmy.today)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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i was just wondering because i do talk to my friends most of the time through email and since gmail lets you add mpop and mop3 to email clients i figured it would be an interesting idea to use an email client on the terminal with built in notifications and stuff, thanks so much

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

"All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less."

http://mutt.org/

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

elm
mutt
mail

And plenty more: https://www.tecmint.com/best-commandline-email-clients-for-linux/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

i should have googled it first right?? umm thanks a lot!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago

It did cross my mind, but I find that giving actual answers is more productive :)

Have fun with your terminal adventures!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is it really practical in 2024? I used pine as my sole e-mail client for many years.

In the last 15 years it feels like every mail expects the client to be able to render html, with no real fallback for text-only. Even when my client only blocks remote images some mail can be quite hard to decipher.

Company handbook even requires me to have a html signature with a picture of the company logo.. before that I've militantly only sent text-only e-mail.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They can render HTML now. 😉

Pretty sure the pine rewrite called alpine can: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client), but mutt certainly can.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

nmh is my favorite. You would have to script your notifications though

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes it does exist. I've only dabbled with terminal email clients so not sure if they have notifications but:

Aerc https://aerc-mail.org/

Himalaya https://github.com/RussPalms/himalaya_dev

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

You could take a look at: https://github.com/aclements/notmuch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

A related post that you may find interesting: https://lemmy.ml/post/23440879