BSD/Linux/macos terminal email client with support for multiple accounts and Maildir / mbox / notmuch / IMAP / JMAP / NNTP (Usenet).
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#meli
on OFTC IRC | mailing lists- Repository:
- Main https://git.meli-email.org/meli/meli Report bugs and/or feature requests in meli's issue tracker
- Official mirror https://codeberg.org/meli/meli
- Official mirror https://github.com/meli/meli
- Official mirror https://ayllu-forge.org/meli/meli
Table of contents:
- Install
- Build
- Quick start
- Supported E-mail backends
- E-mail submission backends
- Non-exhaustive list of features
- HTML Rendering
- Documentation
cargo install meli
orcargo install --git https://git.meli-email.org/meli/meli.git meli
- pkgsrc
- openbsd ports
- Pre-built debian package, static binaries
- Nix
- MacPorts
Run cargo build --release --bin meli
or make
.
For detailed building instructions, see BUILD.md
# Create configuration file in ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/meli/config.toml:
$ meli create-config
# Edit configuration in ${EDITOR} or ${VISUAL}:
$ meli edit-config
# Optionally, install manual pages if installed via cargo:
$ meli install-man
# Ready to go.
$ meli |
See a comprehensive tour of See also the Quickstart tutorial online. After installing You can run meli with arbitrary configuration files by setting the MELI_CONFIG=./test_config cargo run |
See meli(7)
for an extensive tutorial and meli.conf(5)
for all configuration values.
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Main view | Compact main view | Compose with embed terminal editor |
Protocol | Support |
---|---|
IMAP | full |
Maildir | full |
notmuch | full1 |
mbox | read-only |
JMAP | functional |
NNTP / Usenet | functional |
- SMTP
- Pipe to shell script
- Server-side submission when supported
- TLS
- email threading support
- multithreaded, async operation
- optionally run your editor of choice inside meli, with an embedded xterm-compatible terminal emulator
- plain text configuration in TOML
- ability to open emails in UI tabs and switch to them
- optional sqlite3 index search
- override almost any setting per mailbox, per account
- contact list (+read-only vCard and mutt alias file support)
- forced UTF-8 (other encodings are read-only)
- configurable shortcuts
- theming
NO_COLOR
support- ascii-only drawing characters option
- view text/html attachments through an html filter command (w3m by default)
- pipe attachments/mail to stuff
- use external attachment file picker instead of typing in an attachment's full path
- GPG signing, encryption, signing + encryption
- GPG signature verification
HTML rendering is achieved using w3m by default.
You can use the pager.html_filter
setting to override this (for more details you can consult meli.conf(5)
).
See a comprehensive tour of meli
in the manual page meli(7)
.
See also the Quickstart tutorial online.
After installing meli
, see meli(1)
, meli.conf(5)
, meli(7)
and meli-themes(5)
for documentation.
Sample configuration and theme files can be found in the meli/docs/samples/
subdirectory.
Manual pages are also hosted online.
meli
by default looks for a configuration file in this location: ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/meli/config.toml
You can run meli with arbitrary configuration files by setting the ${MELI_CONFIG}
environment variable to their locations, or use the [-c, --config]
argument:
MELI_CONFIG=./test_config meli
or
meli -c ./test_config
Footnotes
-
there's no support for searching through all email directly, you'd have to create a mailbox with a notmuch query that returns everything and search inside that mailbox. ↩