aerc Email Client¶

aerc is a modern text-based email client written in Go, which you can compile and run on Blinkenshell. This howto will explain how to compile and configure aerc to access your Blinkenshell email account.

aerc homepage: https://aerc-mail.org/

Configuring aerc¶

Git clone aerc repository (or download a specific release archive), optionally specify a release branch (v0.21.0 in this case)

git clone --branch 0.21.0 https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc

Then compile and install to your homedir from the buildserver:

ssh buildserver
cd <gitrepo>
gmake
gmake install PREFIX=~/.local

Jump back to triton to run the program ~/.local/bin/aerc

It will ask some initial configuration, I used settings like this:

• name for account: Blinkenshell
• email address: @blinkenshell.org
• username:
• incoming server IMAP: mail.blinkenshell.org (STARTTLS)
• outgoing server SMTP: mail.blinkenshell.org:25 (STARTTLS)
• password command: systemd-ask-password

Links¶

• Email at Blinkenshell