Astroid

Windows · Mac · Linux

Freedom report

Two barsScore 5.4

Astroid is ranked #111 of 143 in email clients on Freedom251. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows.

Compared on email clients

Product: Astroid is a lightweight graphical mail user agent for searching, displaying, composing, and organizing email in threads and tags.
Search: Astroid uses the notmuch backend to search through email.
Mail handling: Astroid relies on other programs to fetch, sync, index, and send email.
Typical setup: The project describes a typical setup using OfflineIMAP, notmuch, msmtp, and Astroid, with vim or emacs as an email editor.
Interface: The interface can be operated by keyboard and its buffers can be placed in separate windows.
Message display: Astroid can display HTML mail and common attachments inline.
Customization: The project describes Astroid as themable and configurable.
Encryption: Astroid includes PGP/MIME cryptography support.
Editors: Astroid supports embedded or external vim or emacs editors, as well as other editors.
Plugins: Astroid supports Python and Lua plugins.
Distribution: The project README provides instructions to clone the source repository and build Astroid with CMake.
Platform evidence: The README describes installing the astroid binary under /usr/local/bin, and the project wiki lists setup instructions for Linux distributions including Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and NixOS.
Support: The project says users can report issues on GitHub or contact its mailing list.
Setup limit: The project says configuration effort can vary by email provider and that Gmail requires special configuration.

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