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📫 Himalaya
Minimalist CLI email client, written in Rust.
The project is under active development. Do not use in production before the
v1.0.0
(see the roadmap).
Table of contents
Motivation
Bringing emails to the terminal is a pain. The mainstream TUI, (neo)mutt, takes time to configure. The default mapping is not intuitive when coming from the Vim environment. It is even scary to use at the beginning, since you are dealing with sensitive data!
The aim of Himalaya is to extract the email logic into a simple (yet solid) CLI API that can be used either directly from the terminal or UIs. It gives users more flexibility.
Installation
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/soywod/himalaya/master/install.sh | bash
See the wiki section for other installation methods.
Configuration
# ~/.config/himalaya/config.toml
name = "Your full name"
downloads-dir = "/abs/path/to/downloads"
signature = "Regards,"
[gmail]
default = true
email = "your.email@gmail.com"
imap-host = "imap.gmail.com"
imap-port = 993
imap-login = "your.email@gmail.com"
imap-passwd-cmd = "pass show gmail"
smtp-host = "smtp.gmail.com"
smtp-port = 487
smtp-login = "your.email@gmail.com"
smtp-passwd-cmd = "security find-internet-password -gs gmail -w"
See the wiki section for all the options.
Usage
himalaya 0.2.0
soywod <clement.douin@posteo.net>
📫 Minimalist CLI email client
USAGE:
himalaya [OPTIONS] [SUBCOMMAND]
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-a, --account <STRING> Selects a specific account
-m, --mailbox <MAILBOX> Selects a specific mailbox [default: INBOX]
-o, --output <STRING> Defines the output format [default: plain] [possible values: plain, json]
SUBCOMMANDS:
attachments Downloads all message attachments
copy Copy a message to the targetted mailbox
delete Delete a message
flags Handles flags
forward Forwards a message
help Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
idle Spawns a blocking idle daemon
list Lists all messages
mailboxes Lists all mailboxes
move Move a message to the targetted mailbox
read Reads text bodies of a message
reply Answers to a message
save Saves a raw message
search Lists messages matching the given IMAP query
send Sends a raw message
template Generates a message template
write Writes a new message
See the wiki section for more information about commands.
List mailboxes
Shows mailboxes in a basic table.
List messages
Shows messages in a basic table.
Search messages
Shows filtered messages in a basic table. The query should follow the RFC-3501.
Download attachments
Downloads all attachments from a message directly to the
downloads-dir
.
Read a message
Shows the text content of a message (text/plain
if exists, otherwise
text/html
).
Write a new message
himalaya write
Opens your default editor (from the $EDITOR
environment variable) to compose
a new message.
Reply to a message
himalaya reply --all 5123
Opens your default editor to reply to a message.
Forward a message
himalaya forward 5123
Opens your default editor to forward a message.
Copy a message
himalaya copy 5123 Sent
Copies a message to the targetted mailbox.
Move a message
himalaya move 5123 Drafts
Moves a message to the targetted mailbox.
Delete a message
himalaya delete 5123
Moves a message.
Listen to new messages
himalaya idle
Starts a session in idle mode (blocking). When a new message arrives, it runs
the command notify-cmd
defined in the config
file.
Here a use case with systemd
:
# ~/.config/systemd/user/himalaya.service
[Unit]
Description=Himalaya new messages notifier
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/himalaya idle
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
systemctl --user enable himalaya.service
systemctl --user start himalaya.service
Interfaces
GUI
Not yet, but feel free to contribute ;)
TUI
Credits
- 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 lib