Aerc

Email client for your terminal

Aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. It is highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.

Some of its more interesting features include

• 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
• First-class 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
• CalDAV and CardDAV support for synchronizing contacts & calendar events
• 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