meli is a configurable and extensible e-mail client with sane defaults.
It is targeted at both new and power users of the terminal, but built with a modern perspective.
A variety of email workflows and software stacks should be usable with meli. Integrate e-mail storage, sync, tagging system, SMTP client, contact management and editor of your choice to replace the defaults.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Email threads.
- Multithreaded, async operation.
- Mailboxes can be viewed in 4 modes:
- Plain views each mail individually.
- Threaded shows their thread relationship visually.
- Conversations collapses each thread of e-mails into a single entry.
- Compact shows one row per thread.
- Embed your own editor.
- Plain text configuration.
- Multi-tasking with UI tabs.
- IMAP, Maildir, notmuch, JMAP, mbox, and NNTP.
- Optional sqlite3 index search.
- Fast and minimal account configuration.
- Contact list (+read-only vCard support).
- Forced UTF-8 – other encodings are read-only.
- Theming.
- GPG signing, encryption, signing and encryption.
- GPG signature verification.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, BSD, and macOS.
Website: meli-email.org
Support: Code Repository
Developer: Manos Pitsidianakis
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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