Text-based email client

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.

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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 interfaces in general.

List of text-based email clients

Notable clients include:[1][2]

Email software for the command line that does not occupy the whole screen (cf. TUI) include e. g. Cleancode eMail, mail (Unix), mailx, nmh, procmail, sendmail, and many others.

gollark: You can't really.
gollark: r/somewhathorriblejokes
gollark: No, that was caused by potatOS bricking itself one time due to a bug.
gollark: *Helpful* potatoes, remember that.
gollark: They're totally not the poisonous ones.

See also

References
  1. Ravi 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
  2. https://useplaintext.email/
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