Top 4 open source command-line email clients
Jason B
And for Linux power users who live and die by the command line, leaving the shell to use a traditional desktop or web based email client just doesn’t cut it. Mutt Many terminal enthusiasts may already have heard of or even be familiar with Mutt and Alpine, which have both been on the scene for many years. Let’s first take a look at Mutt. That’s okay for many Mutt users, though, who are comfortable with the interface and adhere to the project’s slogan: All mail clients suck. It doesn’t actually send or receive email messages on its own, and the code which enables Notmuch’s super-fast searching is actually designed as a separate library which the program can call.
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