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Privacy enhanced terminal application for off-line E-mail management

Updates on: https://dyne.org/software/jaro-mail

INTRODUCTION

Jaromail is an integrated suite of interoperable tools for GNU/Linux, Apple/OSX and MS/WSL to manage e-mail communication in a private and efficient way, without relying too much on on-line services, in fact encouraging users to store E-Mail locally and remove it from servers.

Rather than reinventing the wheel, Jaromail adopts a set of robust free and open source tools and integrates them automatically. It also comes with a complete usage manual.

Overview of internal components:

Jaromail architecture diagram:

List of core features

• Privacy by design to facilitate local storage and backup
• Helps to empty an on-line INBOX, free space and avoid bills
• Supports strong encryption and signing messages (gpg)
• Minimalistic and efficient interface with message threading
• Targets intensive usage of e-mails and mailinglists (neomutt)
• Stores E-Mails in a very reliable UNIX format (maildir)
• Integrates filtering locally as well remotely with (sieve)
• Implements graylisting to filter known and new contacts
• Can do search and backup by advanced expressions (notmuch)
• Automatically generates filter rules (sieve)
• Imports and exports VCard contacts to addressbook (abook)
• Computes and shows statistics on mail traffic
• Encrypted password storage OS independent (pass)
• Advanced analysis tools and address extraction (mblaze)
• Group contacts into secret BCC: lists of recipients
• Checks fingerprints of SSL/TLS server certificates
• Can send anonymous emails (mixmaster)
• Renders HTML with links, without images (elinks)
• May run on a remove machine connected via terminal (ssh)
• Many languages! so exotic! such UTF-8!
• Multi platform: GNU/Linux/BSD, Apple/OSX, Microsoft/WSL
• Old school, used by its author for the past 20 years

Install

Make sure you have installed the following dependencies on your operating system, they should be named in a similar way across distributions, here below the names of the packages are referring to those found in APT distros:

fetchmail msmtp neomutt notmuch pinentry-curses abook \
wipe mblaze vim netcat-traditional

To compile and install jaromail on your system as root:

make install

When Jaromail is installed system-wide, the JAROMAILDIR environmental variable can be changed to point to where all emails will be stored, by default it is $HOME/Mail.

Read the manual:

man jaromail

Usage

For a brief overview see the commandline help:

 jaro -h

When in doubt, make sure you read the Jaromail usage manual.

Note for experienced Mutt users: keys will be familiar, but there are things to learn in the manual on how jaromail enhances the workflow.

Developers

All development happens on github.com/jaromail

We are reachable on many Dyne.org chats and channels.

License

Jaromail is Copyright (C) 2010-2023 by the Dyne.org foundation

Designed, written and maintained by @jaromil

This source code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This source code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Please refer to the GNU Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Public License along with this source code; if not, write to: Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.