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{{short description|An emailEmail client that does not use graphics}}

{{Refimprove|date=March 2020}}

[[File:Elm.png|thumb|Screenshot of [[Elm_(email_client)|Elm]]]]

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

A '''text-based email client''' is an [[email client]] with its [[user interface]] being [[text-based]], occupying a whole [[Terminal_emulatorTerminal emulator|terminal]] screen. Other kind of [[email client]]s 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 interface]]s in general.

Typical features include:<ref name=aerc-ycombinator/>

* 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:<ref name="tecmint2020" /> <ref name="useplaintext" />

* [[aerc]]<ref name=aerc-initial/><ref name=aerc-contributors/><ref name=aerc-ycombinator/>

* [[Cone (software)|cone]]

* [[COnsole_Newsreader_And_Emailer|Cone]] <!-- need to create pages for these -->

* [[Elm (email client)|Elm]]

* [[Emacs]]: [[Gnus]], mu4e, rmail, Wanderlust

* meli

* Lumail

* mblaze

* [[Meli_email_client|meli]]

* [[Mutt (email client)|Mutt]]

** [[NeoMutt]] <!-- need to create pages for these -->

** NeoMutt

* [[Pine (email client)|pine]]

** [[Alpine (email client)|alpine]]

* [[Sup (email client)|sup]]<!-- need to create pages for these -->

* sup

* [[vim (text editor)|vim]] (using a plugin<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/soywod/himalaya/tree/master/vim|title = Himalaya/Vim at master · soywod/Himalaya|website = [[GitHub]]}}</ref> for himalaya)

Email software for the [[command line]] that does not occupy the whole screen (cf. [[Text-based user interface|TUI]]) include e. g. [[Cleancode eMail]], [[CURL]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/reademail.html|title=Reading email - everything curl|website=everything.curl.dev}}</ref> himalaya, [[mail (Unix)]], [[mailx]], [[MH Message Handling System|nmhMH]], [[procmail]], [[sendmail]], and many others.

== See also ==

* [[Text-based web browser]]

* [[Comparison of email clients]]

==References==

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<ref name="useplaintext">{{cite web |url=https://useplaintext.email/ |title=Use plaintext email |date=2021-03-19 |quote=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. }}</ref>

<ref name="aerc-initial">{{cite web|url=https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/refs/0.1.0 |title=aerc 0.1.0 |date=June 3, 2019|accessdate=June 9, 2019}}</ref>

<ref name="aerc-contributors">{{cite web |url=https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/contributors |title=Contributions to ~sircmpwn/aerc |access-date=2021-06-12 |archive-date=2019-06-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608201222/https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/contributors |url-status=dead }}</ref>

<ref name="aerc-ycombinator">{{cite web|url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20090950 |title=Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal |date=2019-06-05}}</ref>

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