CLUSTER EMAIL-TERMINAL-CLIENT · 17 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-10-27
Terminal email clients
This cluster consists of terminal and command-line email clients and utilities, ranging from MBOX readers and Gmail/Proton clients to generic multi-account organizers. The pre-index timeline shows sparse entries from 2013 through mid-2023 (with long gaps), then a group of entries in early 2026. Traction is led by notmutt (5 stars), followed by proton-mail-arm64 (2 stars) and mail (0 stars).
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 15 unlabelled
Operator · 1 hobby · 14 open source · 2 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 17 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01notmutt8★21 daysliveTerminal email client with fast tag-based mail management, in-terminal HTML rendering, and keyboard-driven navigation for power users.
- 02tuimail3★todaylivehobbyTerminal email client that reads IMAP and POP3 accounts, sends via SMTP, manages multiple accounts with keyboard navigation, and stores passwords in the system keychain.
- 03charm-pop-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based utility for sending emails that integrates with various mail platforms and supports quick command-line invocation.
- 04notmutt0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal email client that lets users search, read, and manage messages asynchronously from an indexed local mail store.
- 05python-mail-html-open0★1 moliveopen sourceUtility that opens HTML-formatted email content from terminal mail clients in a web browser.
- 06postero-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal email client that lets users read, compose, and manage their inboxes from the command line.
- 07antiphon0★2 moliveopen sourceA terminal-based mail client that allows users to read, compose, and organize emails across multiple accounts, with keyboard-driven efficiency.
- 08nmail0★18 daysliveopen sourceTerminal-based email client that lets users read, compose, and manage email from the command line.
- 09matcha-client-bin0★17 daysliveopen sourceTerminal-based email client providing a rich set of features for reading, composing, and organizing email messages.
- 10neomd-bin0★21 daysliveopen sourceA terminal email client that displays messages in Markdown and allows composing in Neovim.
- 11mboxshell0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal tool that reads and displays MBOX email archives of any size without loading them fully into memory.
- 12cone-simple0★2 molivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal-based email client that manages multiple POP3 and IMAP accounts, local mail folders, and news feeds.
- 13telex-bin0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal client and CLI for managing email workflows and integrating with email services.
- 14xonimail0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based email client that provides Gmail access optimized for computers with limited hardware resources.
- 15charm-pop0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that allows users to send emails directly from a terminal without leaving the command line.
- 16meli0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal mail client that offers configurable email management with extensible capabilities.
- 17matcha0★unknownlivehand-codedTerminal-based email client for reading and sending messages without leaving the command line.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.