Your email.
Your rules.

Completely keyboard-driven. ^{(Emacs not required)}

Group GitHub notifications by organization and repository, then shorten and color their subjects with display rules.

• /search mail
• gjump to a folder or tag
• c redit the rules
• c dedit the display rules
• m aarchive the selected message
• uundo, including server changes

Configure everything in text

Choose your theme, layout, fonts, and message columns in TOML, using your editor or ours.

~/.config/inboxctl/config.toml

[ui]
theme = "inboxctl"
layout = "( folders / tags ) | ( message_list / message )"
message_list_format = [["unread", "flag"], "date", "from", "subject"]
block_images = true

[ui.font]
families = ["JetBrains Mono", "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font"]
size = 13.0

Sensible defaults included. You can disagree with all of them.

Handle email in bulk

Because GitHub can send 50 emails an hour. Archive all search results with M, or select messages with Space. Press u to undo. The rollback plan is one key long.

Rule with rules (and style)

File notifications automatically and flag mail that needs a reply. Use display rules to remove repetitive prefixes and make failed runs stand out.

# group GitHub mail by organization and repository
from:notifications@github.com
  subject~/^(?:Re: )?\[(?<owner>[^\/\]]+)\/(?<repo>[^\]]+)\]/
  -> file GitHub/${owner}/${repo} sort count

# file the mailing list and mark it read
list-id:rust-users -> file Lists/Rust, mark read

# flag mail from your boss and show a Dock dot
from:boss@corp.example is:unread -> flag, dot

# count unread messages in each folder
is:unread -> count folder

# drop the reply marker
from:notifications@github.com -> match:msg /^Re: / replace ""

# shorten the repository prefix and color it cyan
from:notifications@github.com -> match:msg /\[[^\]]+\/([^\]]+)\]/ replace "$1" cyan

# align PR numbers on the right
from:notifications@github.com -> ralign:msg /\S/ /#\d+$/

# show run results as green PASS or red FAIL
from:notifications@github.com -> match:msg /Run succeeded:/ replace "PASS" green
from:notifications@github.com -> match:msg /Run failed:/ replace "FAIL" red

Save with Cmd S to apply rules to existing mail too. Errors are underlined; your last valid rules keep working. A syntax error needn’t become an incident.

More features

• Your editor, inside your email

  Write messages and edit rules in Neovim or Kakoune with your existing configuration. The one you were going to finish in 2019.

• Write in Markdown

  Preview formatted email as you compose. Paste images directly into the body.

• Custom counts and badges

  Choose what the sidebar counts and when the Dock icon shows a badge.

• Quote the part you mean

  Select a passage to quote in your reply.

• Multiple sender identities

  Switch identities, each with its own signature, Reply-To address, and Bcc settings.

• Open links by number

  List a message’s links and open the first nine with number keys.

• Control image loading

  Allow remote images from chosen senders. Images declared as 1 × 1 pixels stay blocked by default.

• Return to your draft

  Save drafts locally with recipients, body, and attachments. Sleep on the strongly worded ones.

• Pick your colors

  Click a hex color in the config editor to adjust it visually. Bikeshedding, with a preview.

• Standard or Emacs keys

  Choose a preset for the built-in editor. Both include incremental search.

• Add an account by typing your address

  Enter your email address to look up your provider’s settings. Setup includes a link to create an app password.

• Today's mail arrives first

  Read and manage recent messages while older mail downloads in the background.

• Folder management

  Create, delete, hide, or stop syncing a folder from the folder pane. Naming them remains one of the hard problems.

• Folders in your language

  Recognizes your provider’s trash, drafts, and archive folders across languages.

• POP3 accounts too

  Download mail with the option to keep a copy on the server.