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Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
Aerc is a TUI email client. It had its first release ~4 years ago. This makes it a “baby” compared to most of its “competitors” (Pine was released in 1992, Mutt in 1995). I heard about this program shortly after its first release but ignored it at the time, because I was still reasonably happy with Thunderbird and it seemed quite bare-bones in comparison. I recently decided to revisit this piece of software.
The tutorial is a good place to start and succinctly describes the most important features and keybinds to get set up quickly. It has default filters for plain text (colorising rules), calendar entries and HTML emails. Like many things, theoretically this is handled quite elegantly in aerc: it defers address book organisation to an external program.
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