Tilde

Tilde reads your mail and your chat in one terminal: IMAP, Maildir, XMPP and IRC, light, configured from one file and scripted in Lua.

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The main screen of tt: a tree of accounts and folders on the left, the list of messages on the right, and a status line at the bottom. — The main screen of `tt`: the accounts and folders on the left, the messages on the right.

Install

On Debian and Ubuntu, add the apt repository and install the package:

sudo curl https://codeberg.org/api/packages/squidd/debian/repository.key -o /etc/apt/keyrings/forgejo-squidd.asc
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/forgejo-squidd.asc] https://codeberg.org/api/packages/squidd/debian stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tilde.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install tilde-all

tilde-all installs both programs. tilde-cli is tcli alone and tilde-tui is tt alone. The page Install on Debian and Ubuntu has the rest, and Install from an archive covers the other systems. Start goes on from the install to a first config.toml, and the tutorial walks through tt with made-up mail.

Mail and chat

Read mail over IMAP or from a Maildir, and send it over SMTP. Talk over XMPP and IRC. One tree of accounts and folders, with the unread messages of each folder.

Light

tt is the terminal interface and tcli the command line. Each is one self-contained file, and you can install one or both. The configuration is one text file.

Configurable

Accounts live in config.toml. Keys, commands, timers and rules are Lua scripts that you own. OpenPGP goes through your own gpg.