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Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• aerc
• carddav-query

Projektgeschichte

The project is hosted on SourceHut at git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc and publishes release tags beginning with the 0.x series. Its public project identity has stayed close to hacker-oriented terminal mail: the homepage slogan is "a pretty good email client", and the official SourceHut summary says it is a pretty good email client that runs in your terminal.

The project has continued as an actively maintained SourceHut project, with source, releases, mailing lists, bug tracker, and wiki all linked from the official homepage. The homepage also links FOSDEM 2024 and FOSDEM 2025 aerc material, reflecting a project with conference-facing Unix desktop and email-culture presence rather than a quiet one-off utility.

Adoptionsgeschichte

aerc is packaged across mainstream Unix package ecosystems, including Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Alpine, MacPorts, Nix, and openSUSE according to the supplied package-manager facts. That breadth is a useful signal for a terminal mail client: package maintainers consider it a normal installable tool rather than a source-only niche.

Its adoption niche overlaps with developers who use email as part of source-control workflows. The homepage calls out first-class support for working with git and email, a notable feature for users who review and send patches through mailing lists.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users configure aerc through XDG-style configuration files under the aerc config directory. The official aerc-config manpage says aerc uses aerc.conf, binds.conf, and accounts.conf under XDG config home plus aerc, defaulting to ~/.config/aerc, and that alternate files can be supplied on the command line.

The accounts.conf file is security-sensitive. The official aerc-accounts manpage says it configures mail accounts, defaults to ~/.config/aerc/accounts.conf, may include account credentials, and must be kept secret. The config manpage also documents that accounts.conf permissions are expected to be restrictive unless the unsafe-accounts-conf option is explicitly enabled.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

aerc matters to package nerds because it is a modern terminal mail client with a broad backend matrix and a Unix-native configuration model. It sits in the same cultural space as mutt/neomutt and alpine, but with Go-era packaging, SourceHut-native development, and explicit Git email support.

The package is also a good example of how terminal applications increasingly bundle rich workflows without leaving the terminal: embedded terminal composition, terminal browser rendering, patch highlighting, threading, PGP integration, and asynchronous network support are all advertised by the project itself.

Zeitleiste

• 0.1.0: Earliest public release tag visible in the official SourceHut repository.
• 2024: Official homepage links a FOSDEM 2024 aerc talk.
• 2025: Official homepage links FOSDEM 2025 aerc slides.
• 2026: SourceHut repository remains active, with 0.21.0 visible among release tags.

Related projects

• Related tools and protocols include IMAP, JMAP, Maildir, Notmuch, Mbox, SMTP, sendmail, GnuPG, git-send-email, mutt, neomutt, and SourceHut mailing-list workflows.

Quellen

• https://aerc-mail.org/
• https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc
• https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc/blob/master/doc/aerc-accounts.5.scd
• https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc/blob/master/doc/aerc-config.5.scd
• source_facts.package-manager