#aerc

cyberjunkiecyberjunkie
2026-01-02

The most productive I've been these 3 days, while sipping on rum, getting oauth2 working for my barely used Hotmail IDs, all for aerc!

Claudine C :antifa:claudinec@aus.social
2025-12-23

Besides #TootCLI, this December's #cli/#tui toolkit includes #offpunk, #newsboat, and #aerc.

2025-12-21

In #aerc, can I change the color of the thread arrows?

These things:

Small screenshot from an aerc message list, showing the top message in a thread (subject is something starting with "39C3 comm"), followed by a tree of arrows going down and to the right, showing the thread structure of the replies. Everything has the same golden-white-ish color on an almost black background.
2025-12-20

Is anyone else having issues with the #aerc email client and the #strato mail servers? It works fine with GMail, but for some reason with Strato it can't find any folders to sync. Thunderbird on Linux and Android do it just fine.

Felicitas Pojtingerpojntfx
2025-12-20

Is anyone else having issues with the email client and the mail servers? It works fine with GMail, but for some reason with Strato it can't find any folders to sync. Thunderbird on Linux and Android do it just fine.

in ♥️ with PDA (and 🐧)inlovewithpda@chaos.social
2025-12-14

great sunday... add a script to #niri to record screencast with #wfrecorder and made #aerc my main mail-client.

in ♥️ with PDA (and 🐧)inlovewithpda@chaos.social
2025-12-14

Setting up #aerc

brainwashed by lentilspelle@veganism.social
2025-12-08

@bjarkess
jeg kan virkli godt li #aerc.
den er textbaseret, men ret moderne og ligetil med sådan en fin #wizard til at logge ind. 🪄

ellers så er der også #deltachat, som viser klassiske emails i talebobler ligesom nyere chat apps, og som også kan bruge email som transport til #e2ee chat. 🔐

de er min nye yndlings, selvom de er noget anderledes end #outlook. 📨

2025-12-04

Trying #aerc.

First impressions: It feels _way_ snappier and easier to use than (Neo)Mutt ever did, but its default color scheme sucks.

Like, not just aesthetically: pop-up windows, tab lists and status bars not having a background color is confusing as hell.

Dennis Faucher :donor: :mastodon:dennisfaucher@infosec.exchange
2025-11-22

TFW: FOSS aerc is always more reliable than Apple Mail.
#Apple #Aerc #FOSS

Luna / Miika :nb_verified: (need more cuddles)nyovaya@transfem.social
2025-10-28

Im feeling stupid how I do send a #mail using #git send-mail? Or just use it with #aerc? The usual sendmail utility says OK when sending it but nothing ever arrives it seems.

𝐩fᵣpfr@bsd.cafe
2025-10-16

@mms I missed the vote, but #aerc for me.

Packet-lost soulrek2@hispagatos.space
2025-10-14

Posted this on #usenet #hispagatos.ayuda newsgroup but going to share here since I logged in to do some admin stuff, this is a #howto to get working together #dstask #calcure and #aerc man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wik #happyHacking #HackerCulture #hispagatos #TelegramIsShit

OK, after a detour experimenting with #HaikuOS and dealing with small things like buying a house, I'm back on my bullshit. #DOSBox is working so I can play some games, #MOO2 being a favorite . The #lemmy clients I've found are only mediocre, and getting a #Mastodon client to work with this account has prevent to be a bit tricky for security reasons, but I'll probably knock that out today. Also, #aerc seems like a friendlier email client, so I'm giving it a try.

Dennis Faucher :donor: :mastodon:dennisfaucher@infosec.exchange
2025-10-02

Shout out to #aerc which is the geekiest, most awesome, CLI-est email client out there. Pulls my email faster than Mac Mail and I can do almost everything with the keyboard. Yes, reading HTML mails in Lynx mode is wonky, but kind of adorable.
#email

Dennis Faucher :donor: :mastodon:dennisfaucher@infosec.exchange
2025-09-08

So, I love #Thunderbird, but it bogs down my poor old #Linux laptop. I thought I would try a few terminal email clients. Here is how it went:

* #Alpine (new Pine): Connecting to Gmail was hard - even when I had set up application-specific passwords for 2FA. Had to manually edit SMTP settings in .pinerc

* #NeoMutt (new Mutt): required serious manual config to get the sidebar showing and even then CTRL-O would not switch email folders for me

* #aerc: A joy. Sidebar by default. Working key commands. Nice colon menu for commands. Was able to set up multiple gmail accounts with application-specific passwords.

My Junk Mail folder in aerc
Hukadan :chocolatine:hukadan@chocolatines.org
2025-08-13

When using aerc and dealing with multiple attached documents, I am only presented with the mimetype of document when I want to open one of them (first picture). If I have multiple documents of the same mimetype, it is sometimes hard to know which document I am about to open. Is there a way to configure aerc to display the file name (like it does at the bottom of the email - second picture)? Boost welcome. #aerc #email

aerc email client screenshot showing a list of attached file (one jpeg and one docx).A screenshot of the aerc email client showing a file of type docx with option to open, save or pipe it, but without displaying the name of the file.

Trying out #aerc and I want to like it (it has some fancy feature like embedded terminal etc) but there are some weird behaviours that don’t seem quite right. Sorting the way I want seems impossible (whether I do `sort date` or `sort -r date` it always appears to be reverse-chronological, not chronological; `sort from -r date`seems close to what I want but is inexplicable); and threads get reorganised on every delete so if I read through a thread and delete messages as I go, it might suddenly decide that the next message is actually one from a different thread.

I used #mutt back in the day and I see #neomutt has imap support now, so I’ll be giving that a try next.

2025-07-26

I’m using mutt so need to ask this before updating readme.

This what I have for mutt:

macro index F10 "<pipe-message>multidepart --browse\n" "View HTML in browser"
macro pager F10 "<pipe-message>multidepart --browse\n" "View HTML in browser"

This is what I presume would be correct for aerc (in ~/.config/aerc/binds.conf):

[messages]
F10= :pipe -p multidepart --browse<Enter>
[view]
F10= :pipe -p multidepart --browse<Enter>

Does that look about right?

#aerc #mutt #email #html

Oto Šťávaalefunguju
2025-07-18

The situation with picking default applications for file types on is a real PITA. Why is my suddenly opening for PDF attachments instead of configured in my mimeapps, ffs? xdg-mime says the default is Zathura, so wtf is going on?

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