alot is a terminal-based mail user agent based on the notmuch mail indexer. alot makes use of existing solutions where possible: It does not fetch, send or edit mails; it lets notmuch handle your mailindex and uses a toolkit to render its display.
It features a modular and command prompt driven interface to provide a full MUA experience as an alternative to the Emacs mode shipped with notmuch.
Alot is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Multiple accounts for sending mails via sendmail.
- Spawn terminal windows for asynchronous editing of mails.
- Tab completion and usage help for all commands.
- Contacts completion using customizable lookups commands.
- User configurable keyboard maps.
- Customizable colour and layout themes.
- Python hooks to react on events and do custom formatting.
- Forward/reply/group-reply of emails.
- Printing/piping of mails and threads.
- Configurable status bar with notification popups.
- Database manager that manages a write queue to the notmuch index.
- Full support for PGP/MIME encryption and signing.
Website: github.com/pazz/alot
Support: User Manual, FAQ
Developer: Patrick Totzke and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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| 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" |
| Cone | COnsole Newsreader And Emailer |
| matcha | Powerful, feature-rich email client for your terminal |
| bower | Curses frontend for the Notmuch email system |
| Vmail | Vim interface to Gmail |
| neatmail | Non-interactive email client |
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