The Bat! is a secure email client software, built to protect your correspondence against third-parties.




Mutt is described as 'Small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. Some of its features are: color support, message threading, MIME support (including RFC2047 support for encoded headers), PGP/MIME (RFC2015), various features to support mailing lists, including' and is a popular Email Client in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Mutt for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and BSD apps. The best Mutt alternative is Thunderbird, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Mutt are Betterbird, Evolution, Microsoft Outlook and eM Client.
The Bat! is a secure email client software, built to protect your correspondence against third-parties.




No-frills, easy to use, easy to maintain Email client for Android based on the JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP).





Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging large collections of email messages. It uses the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search of very large collection of email with a very convenient search syntax.
Nextcloud Mail is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Mutt.
nmail is a light-weight console/terminal-based email client for Linux and macOS with a user interface similar to alpine / pine.

Astroid is a Mail User Agent. As such, all Astroid provides is a graphical interface to your email. Thus, Astroid enables you to launch actions that rely on the performance of other programs to actually fetch, sync, index, search and send your email.




Trojitá, is a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client that respects open standards and facilitates modern technologies. Trojitá values vendor-neutrality that IMAP provides and is committed to be as interoperable as possible.



Historically, Icedove was a re-branding of Thunderbird by the Debian project, with minimal modifications, in order to resolve branding disputes. Debian since discontinued Iceweasel in February of 2017 after reaching an agreement with Mozilla over the use of it's trademark.
Experimental terminal mail client aiming for configurability and extensibility with sane defaults.




The most powerful platform for email productivity in a beautiful native app — on desktop and mobile.



Not CLI-based, limited platform support


Scribe is a small portable email client with an intergrated contact database and calendar. It supports all the major internet mail protocols and uses international standards where possible. Scribe doesn't required installing or uninstalled and can be used from a removable...




Not CLI-based, not for PC's