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Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

#1

Post by jcamou » Tue, Jun 04, 2019, 1:40 AM UTC

Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
aerc-mail.org

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

#2

Post by ncmncm » Tue, Jun 04, 2019, 1:58 AM UTC

I saw the title [was: "World's Best Email Client"] and thought, "yeah, sure".

But WOW. It's the e-mail of my dreams. Take my money, damn you!

EDIT: I may have been seduced by the clicky keyboard noises in the video. But no! Is good!

EDIT2: I forgive you for Wayland.

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

#3

Post by GlenTheMachine » Tue, Jun 04, 2019, 2:02 AM UTC

Exchange compatibility? Asking for a friend;)

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

#4

Post by ryjo » Tue, Jun 04, 2019, 2:02 AM UTC

I can tell from the video that the interface is quite easy to navigate if you're a vim user. Very impressive work!

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

#5

Post by Avamander » Tue, Jun 04, 2019, 2:04 AM UTC

How's the UTF-8 e-mail address support? As most clients suck so bad at that it would be awesome to have an alternative.

How's the GPG and S/MIME support? We'd really need an e-mail client that has first class support of both. Current solutions I've tried are cumbersome at best.

Having those two it'd actually be the best e-mail client for me.

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

#6

Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Tue, Jun 04, 2019, 2:04 AM UTC

GlenTheMachine wrote: post #3

Exchange compatibility? Asking for a friend;)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients/pop3-and-i...

I have no interest in first-class exchange support upstream.

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

#7

Post by craftyguy » Tue, Jun 04, 2019, 2:05 AM UTC

GlenTheMachine wrote: post #3

Exchange compatibility? Asking for a friend;)

Can exchange do IMAP?

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

#8

Post by ddevault » Tue, Jun 04, 2019, 2:06 AM UTC

Avamander wrote: post #5

How's the UTF-8 e-mail address support? As most clients suck so bad at that it would be awesome to have an alternative. How's the GPG and S/MIME support? We'd really need an e-mail client that has first class support of both. Current solutions I've tried are cumbersome at best. Having those two it'd actually be the best e-mail client for me.

UTF-8 support is excellent.

First-class PGP support is planned and a blocker for 1.0, but not there yet. Here's a mockup to tease you:

https://cmpwn.com/system/media_attachments/files/000/351/218...

https://cmpwn.com/system/media_attachments/files/000/351/219...