📫 Himalaya

CLI to manage emails, based on email-lib.

Disclaimer: the project is under active development, do not use in production before the v1.0.0.

Features

Folder listing
Envelopes listing, searching and sorting
Email composition based on $EDITOR
Email manipulation (copy/move/delete)
Multi-accounting
Account listing
Account synchronization for offline usage
IMAP, Maildir and Notmuch support
IMAP IDLE mode for real-time notifications
PGP end-to-end encryption
Completions for various shells
JSON output
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Installation

# Arch Linux (official)
$ pacman -S himalaya

# Arch Linux (from sources)
$ yay -S himalaya-git

# Homebrew
$ brew install himalaya

# Scoop
$ scoop install himalaya

# Cargo
$ cargo install himalaya

# Nix
$ nix-env -i himalaya

# Fedora/CentOS
$ dnf copr enable atim/himalaya
$ dnf install himalaya

See the documentation for other installation methods.

Configuration

Please read the documentation.

Contributing

If you find a bug that does not exist yet, please send an email at ~soywod/pimalaya@todo.sr.ht.

If you have a question, please send an email at ~soywod/pimalaya@lists.sr.ht.

If you want to propose a feature or fix a bug, please send a patch at ~soywod/pimalaya@lists.sr.ht using git send-email (see this guide on how to configure it).

If you want to subscribe to the mailing list, please send an email at ~soywod/pimalaya+subscribe@lists.sr.ht.

If you want to unsubscribe to the mailing list, please send an email at ~soywod/pimalaya+unsubscribe@lists.sr.ht.

If you want to discuss about the project, feel free to join the Matrix workspace #pimalaya.himalaya or contact me directly @soywod.

Credits

Special thanks to the nlnet foundation that helped Himalaya to receive financial support from the NGI Assure program of the European Commission in September, 2022.

IMAP RFC3501
Iris, the himalaya predecessor
isync, an email synchronizer for offline usage
NeoMutt, an email terminal user interface
Alpine, an other email terminal user interface
mutt-wizard, a tool over NeoMutt and isync
rust-imap, a Rust IMAP library
lettre, a Rust mailer library
mailparse, a Rust MIME email parser.