aerc is an email client for your terminal.
aerc optionally supports notmuch.
The program is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Editing emails in an embedded terminal tmux-style, allowing you to check on incoming emails and reference other threads while you compose your replies
- Render HTML emails with an interactive terminal web browser, highlight patches with diffs, and browse with an embedded less session.
- Vim-style keybindings and ex-command system, allowing for powerful automation at a single keystroke.
- Support for working with git & email.
- Open a new tab with a terminal emulator and a shell running for easy access to nearby git repos for parallel work.
- Support for multiple accounts, with support for IMAP, Maildir, SMTP, and sendmail transfer protocols.
- Asynchronous IMAP support ensures the UI never gets locked up by a flaky network, as mutt often does.
- Efficient network usage – aerc only downloads the information which is necessary to present the UI, making for a snappy and bandwidth-efficient experience.
Website: aerc-mail.org
Support: Mailing List, Code Repository
Developer: Drew DeVault and contributors
License: Open Source
aerc is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Console Email Clients | |
|---|---|
| NeoMutt | Brings together many patches to extend Mutt |
| mu4e | An extension of mu that runs a full-featured email client within Emacs |
| Himalaya | CLI email client written in Rust |
| Sup | Curses threads-with tags style email client |
| Mutt | Small but very powerful text based program |
| Alpine | Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email |
| meli | Configurable and extensible e-mail client with sane defaults |
| nmail | User interface similar to alpine / pine |
| alot | Lets notmuch handle your mailindex and uses a toolkit to render its display |
| Wanderlust | Mail/news management system with IMAP4rev1 support for Emacs |
| aerc | Billed as a "pretty good email client" |
| matcha | Powerful, feature-rich email client for your terminal |
| Cone | COnsole Newsreader And Emailer |
| bower | Curses frontend for the Notmuch email system |
| Indicium Mail TUI | Keyboard-driven terminal interface with a streamlined workflow |
| CXPost | Cross-platform desktop app for managing multiple accounts |
| mxr | Local-first messaging app built for speed and offline use |
| Epist | Keyboard-centric desktop app for fast, focused correspondence |
| Vmail | Vim interface to Gmail |
| neatmail | Non-interactive email client |
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