Your humble and faithful electronic postman
Jaromail brings established free software tools together for private, efficient email management in the terminal. Keep your messages locally in Maildir, work offline, and use your own tools to read, search and organize your archives.
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User manual
Follow the manual from beginning to end, or go straight to the chapter you need.
| Chapter | What you will find |
|---|---|
| About Jaromail | Features and the vision behind local email |
| Architecture | How the mail tools fit together |
| Setup | Build, install and initialize a mail directory |
| Configuration | Accounts, folders, whitelists and blacklists |
| Workflow | Fetch, read, compose, reply, send and peek |
| Searching | Search expressions, dates and time ranges |
| Statistics | Analyze mail traffic and replay command output |
| Addressbook | Contacts, private recipient groups and exports |
| Filters | Route messages, merge folders and manage storage |
| Shell environment | Completion, platform integrations and the manual license |
Install the latest Linux release
For Linux x86_64 and arm64, this installs the matching release, including all Jaromail helpers, the bundled addressbook, configuration templates and manpages:
curl -fsSL https://dyne.github.io/JaroMail/install.sh | bashThe installer verifies the release checksum and uses ~/.local by default. External mail tools need to be installed separately. Installation requirements and first steps.
Keep a reference nearby
The complete manual and jaro(1) are available as searchable web pages. Reference & downloads includes the original manpages, Markdown, Org, TeX and PDF editions, plus technical notes.
Use Search in the navigation bar to find a command or topic across the site.
Project and community
Jaromail is a Dyne.org project. Find the source and report issues on GitHub, or join the Dyne community channels.