Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring, address book and task list functionality.




Alpine is described as 'Fast, easy to use email client for the command line that is suitable for both the inexperienced email user as well as for the most demanding of power users. Alpine is based on the Pine® Message System (http://www.washington' and is a Email Client in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Alpine for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Android apps. The best Alpine alternative is Evolution, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Alpine are eM Client, Apple Mail, Mutt and Kontact.
Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring, address book and task list functionality.




eM Client is a full featured e-mail client with a modern and easy to use interface. eM Client also offers calendar, tasks, contacts, notes and chat.






Access, view and manage messages from all your email accounts in one place. Categorize your messages into easy to browse categories. Catch up on email easily with Apple Intelligence powered Priority Messages and summarizations.




Apple Mail is not a command line email client.


Mutt is a 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...

More modern features while still bein completely contained on the command line, Mutt is a very good alternative to Alpine.
It is a pure command line email client



KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager of KDE. Kontact is a personal information manager and groupware software suite for KDE. It supports calendars, contacts, notes, to-do lists, news, and email.

aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. It's highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.


Mac IMAP email client featuring keyboard control, Markdown email composition, advanced search capabilities, smart mailboxes, automatic signature handling, cryptographic options with OpenPGP/S-MIME, tagging, multiple notifications, and customizable layouts including widescreen.




Sup is a console-based email client for people with a lot of email. It supports tagging, very fast full-text search, automatic contact- list management, custom code insertion via a hook system, and more.

Command line email client.


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




Experimental terminal mail client aiming for configurability and extensibility with sane defaults.




eM Client is not a command line email client.