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Text-based email client
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<h2 id="list-of-text-based-email-clients">List of text-based email clients</h2> <p>Notable clients include:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>aerc<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li>Cone</li> <li><a href="/facts/Elm_(email_client)/brM9lted">Elm</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Emacs/BvGxuAxQ">Emacs</a>: <a href="/facts/Gnus/uNM2pErW">Gnus</a>, mu4e, rmail, Wanderlust</li> <li>Lumail</li> <li>mblaze</li> <li>meli</li> <li><a href="/facts/Mutt_(email_client)/touyN3AY">Mutt</a> <ul><li>NeoMutt</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/Pine_(email_client)/KufISXbd">pine</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Alpine_(email_client)/uxkwJc0u">alpine</a></li></ul></li> <li>sup</li> <li><a href="/facts/Vim_(text_editor)/JXAYMDgt">vim</a> (using a plugin<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> for himalaya)</li></ul> <p>Email software for the <a href="/facts/Command_line/R9JpGmXQ">command line</a> that does not occupy the whole screen (cf. <a href="/facts/Text-based_user_interface/bngNtqIY">TUI</a>) include e. g. <a href="/facts/Cleancode_eMail/WucvtR8U">Cleancode eMail</a>, <a href="/facts/CURL/01m2dW2j">CURL</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> himalaya, <a href="/facts/Mail_(Unix)/PvrTPnnS">mail (Unix)</a>, <a href="/facts/Mailx/QMmV2M2J">mailx</a>, <a href="/facts/MH_Message_Handling_System/f4CBduT8">MH</a>, <a href="/facts/Procmail/88LdCU1q">procmail</a>, <a href="/facts/Sendmail/NBXSd1JA">sendmail</a>, and many others. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Text-based_web_browser/Bew3DzG1">Text-based web browser</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Comparison_of_email_clients/xtPqT7sv">Comparison of email clients</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal". 2019-06-05. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20090950" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20090950</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Ravi Saive (2020-02-13). "7 Best Command-Line Email Clients for Linux in 2020". TecMint. sometimes, users prefer to deal with email directly from the command-line <a href="https://www.tecmint.com/best-commandline-email-clients-for-linux/" target="_blank">https://www.tecmint.com/best-commandline-email-clients-for-linux/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Use plaintext email". 2021-03-19. 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. <a href="https://useplaintext.email/" target="_blank">https://useplaintext.email/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"aerc 0.1.0". June 3, 2019. Retrieved June 9, 2019. <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/refs/0.1.0" target="_blank">https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/refs/0.1.0</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Contributions to ~sircmpwn/aerc". Archived from the original on 2019-06-08. Retrieved 2021-06-12. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190608201222/https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/contributors" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20190608201222/https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/contributors</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal". 2019-06-05. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20090950" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20090950</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Himalaya/Vim at master · soywod/Himalaya". GitHub. <a href="https://github.com/soywod/himalaya/tree/master/vim" target="_blank">https://github.com/soywod/himalaya/tree/master/vim</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Reading email - everything curl". everything.curl.dev. <a href="https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/reademail.html" target="_blank">https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/reademail.html</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>