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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:cite-ref-aerc-ycombinator-1-0[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

• See also

• References

Notable clients include:cite-ref-tecmint2020-2-0[2]cite-ref-useplaintext-3-0[3]

• aerccite-ref-aerc-initial-4-0[4]cite-ref-aerc-contributors-5-0[5]cite-ref-aerc-ycombinator-1-1[1]

• Cone

• Elm

• Emacs: Gnus, mu4e, rmail, Wanderlust

• Lumail

• mblaze

• meli

• Mutt

• NeoMutt

• pine

• alpine

• sup

• vim (using a plugincite-ref-6[6] for himalaya)

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

• Text-based web browser

• Comparison of email clients

cite-note-aerc-ycombinator-11. ↑ "Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal". 2019-06-05.

cite-note-tecmint2020-22. ↑ citerefravi-saive2020Ravi 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

cite-note-useplaintext-33. ↑ "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.

cite-note-aerc-initial-44. ↑ "aerc 0.1.0". June 3, 2019. Retrieved June 9, 2019.

cite-note-aerc-contributors-55. ↑ "Contributions to ~sircmpwn/aerc". Archived from the original on 2019-06-08. Retrieved 2021-06-12.

cite-note-66. ↑ "Himalaya/Vim at master · soywod/Himalaya". GitHub.

cite-note-77. ↑ "Reading email - everything curl". everything.curl.dev.