meli

BSD/Linux/macos terminal email client with support for multiple accounts and Maildir / mbox / notmuch / IMAP / JMAP / NNTP (Usenet).

Try an old, outdated but online and interactive web demo powered by WebAssembly!

• Say hello on #meli on OFTC IRC, or,
• #meli:matrix.org Matrix bridge (if operational)
• Mailing lists
• Main repository https://git.meli-email.org/meli/meli Report bugs and/or feature requests in meli's issue tracker<details><summary>Official git mirrors</summary>
  • https://codeberg.org/meli/meli
  • https://github.com/meli/meli
  • https://ayllu-forge.org/meli/meli
  • https://gitlab.com/meli-project/meli
  </details>

Table of contents:

• Install
• Build
  • Cargo Compile-time Features
• Quick start
  • Supported E-mail backends
  • E-mail submission backends
  • Non-exhaustive list of features
  • HTML Rendering
• Documentation

Install

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• Crates.io with cargo on all supported systems and architectures https://crates.io/crates/meli

  

  cargo install meli
  

  Install latest development snapshot from git repository:

  cargo install --git https://git.meli-email.org/meli/meli.git meli
  

• Official Debian (and Debian derivatives) packages https://packages.debian.org/trixie/meli

  

  apt install meli
  

• AUR (archlinux) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/meli

  

• OpenSUSE https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/meli

  

• Alpine Linux https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=meli

  

  apk install meli
  

• NetBSD with pkgsrc https://pkgsrc.se/mail/meli

  

• OpenBSD ports https://openports.pl/path/mail/meli

  

• macOS with

  • Homebrew https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/meli

    

    brew install meli
    

  • MacPorts https://ports.macports.org/port/meli/

    

    port install meli
    

• Nix with Nixpkgs https://search.nixos.org/packages?query=meli

  

• Pre-built debian package, static binaries for <code>amd64</code>, <code>arm64</code> architectures

Build

Run make or cargo build --release --bin meli.

See make help output for information on how to use the Makefile.

For detailed building instructions, see BUILD.md

Cargo Compile-time Features

meli supports opting in and out of features at compile time with cargo features.

The contents of the default feature are:

default = ["sqlite3", "notmuch", "smtp", "dbus-notifications", "gpgme", "cli-docs", "jmap", "static"]

A list of all the features and a description for each follows:

| Feature flag | Dependencies | Notes | |---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | <a name="notmuch-feature">notmuch</a> | maildir feature | Provides the notmuch backend | | <a name="jmap-feature">jmap</a> | http feature, url crate with serde feature | Provides the JMAP backend | | <a name="smtp-feature">smtp</a> | tls feature | Integrated async SMTP client | | <a name="sqlite3-feature">sqlite3</a> | rusqlite crate with bundled-full feature | Used in caches | | <a name="sqlite3-static-feature">sqlite3-static</a> | rusqlite crate with bundled-full feature | Same as sqlite3 feature but provided for consistency and in case sqlite3 feature stops bundling libsqlite3 statically in the future. | | <a name="smtp-trace-feature">smtp-trace</a> | smtp feature | Connection trace logs on the trace logging level | | <a name="gpgme-feature">gpgme</a> | | GPG use by dynamically loading libgpgme.so | | <a name="tls-static-feature">tls-static</a> | native-tls crate with vendored feature | Links with OpenSSL statically where it's used | | <a name="http-static-feature">http-static</a> | isahc crate with static-curl feature | Links with curl statically | | <a name="dbus-notifications-feature">dbus-notifications</a> | notify-rust dependency | Uses DBus notifications | | <a name="dbus-static-feature">dbus-static</a> | notify-rust dependency and enableds its d_vendored feature | Includes the dbus library statically. | | <a name="cli-docs-feature">cli-docs</a> | flate2 dependency | Includes the manpage documentation compiled by either mandoc or man binary to plain text in meli's command line. Embedded documentation can be viewed with the subcommand meli man [PAGE] | | <a name="libz-static-feature">libz-static</a> | libz-sys dependency and enables its static feature | Allows for the transitive dependency libz (from curl) to be linked statically.