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A text-based email client is an email client with its user interface being text-based, occupying a whole terminal screen. Other kind of email clients are GUI-based (cf. email client) or Web-based, see Webmail.

Text-based email clients may be useful for users with visual impairment or partial blindness allowing speech synthesis or text-to-speech software to read content to users. Text-based email clients also allow to manage communication via simple remote sessions, e. g. per SSH, for instance when it is not possible to install a local GUI-client and/or access mail via Web interface. Also users may prefer text-based user interfaces in general.

Typical features include:[1]

  • Editing various emails via tab support
  • Configurable rendering of various MIME types, for instance OpenPGP encryption or HTML email
  • Vim-style keybindings
  • Support for multiple accounts and protocols, e. g. IMAP, Maildir, SMTP, and sendmail
  • UTF-8 support

List of text-based email clients

Notable clients include:[2][3]

Email software for the command line that does not occupy the whole screen (cf. TUI) include e. g. Cleancode eMail, CURL,[7] himalaya, mail (Unix), mailx, MH, procmail, sendmail, and many others.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal". 2019-06-05.
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ "aerc 0.1.0". June 3, 2019. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Contributions to ~sircmpwn/aerc".
  6. ↑ "Himalaya/Vim at master · soywod/Himalaya". GitHub.
  7. ↑ https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/reademail


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