📫 Himalaya

Command-line interface for email management based on the himalaya-lib.

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

Features

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

Note: see the wiki for all the features.

Installation

# Arch Linux (official) $ pacman -S himalaya # Arch Linux (from sources) $ yay -S himalaya-git # Homebrew $ brew install himalaya # Cargo $ cargo install himalaya # Nix $ nix-env -i himalaya Note: see the wiki for other installation methods.

Configuration

# ~/.config/himalaya/config.toml

display-name = "Test"
downloads-dir = "~/downloads"
signature = "Regards,"

[gmail]
default = true
email = "test@gmail.com"

backend = "imap"
imap-host = "imap.gmail.com"
imap-port = 993
imap-login = "test@gmail.com"
imap-passwd-cmd = "security find-internet-password -gs gmail -w"

sender = "smtp"
smtp-host = "smtp.gmail.com"
smtp-port = 465
smtp-login = "test@gmail.com"
smtp-passwd-cmd = "security find-internet-password -gs gmail -w"

[gmail.folder-aliases]
inbox = "INBOX"
sent = "[Gmail]/Sent"
drafts = "[Gmail]/Drafts"

[local]
email = "test@localhost"
signature-delim = "~~\n"
signature = "Regards,"

backend = "maildir"
maildir-root-dir = "~/emails"

sender = "sendmail"
sendmail-cmd = "msmtp --read-envelope-from --read-recipients"

Note: see the wiki for all the options.

Contributing

If you find a bug, 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 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.

• himalaya-lib
• 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.

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