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

{{Refimprove|date=March 2020}}

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

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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

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

* [[Cone (software)|cone]]

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

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

* meli

* Lumail

* mblaze

* meli

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

** NeoMutt

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Email software for the [[command line]] that does not occupy the whole screen (cf. [[Text-based user interface|TUI]]) include e. g. [[Cleancode eMail]], himalaya, [[mail (Unix)]], [[mailx]], [[MH Message Handling System|nmh]], [[procmail]], [[sendmail]], and many others.

== See also ==

* [[Text-based web browser]]

* [[Plaintext email]]

==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}}</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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