Himalaya

6.1easy start · #110of 143
in Email clients

Free trialno
Well documentedyes
Runs where you workyes

Runs on Linux, Mac, Windows.

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Himalaya is ranked #110 of 143 in email clients on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows.

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App coverage: desktop

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The record

Product: Himalaya is a command-line tool for managing email.
Mail actions: Its shared commands support listing, reading, composing, sending, searching, moving, and downloading attachments.
Email backends: It supports IMAP, SMTP, ManageSieve, JMAP, Gmail REST API, Microsoft Graph, Maildir, m2dir, mbox, and pimdir.
Authentication: It supports several IMAP, SMTP, and ManageSieve authentication mechanisms, plus basic and bearer authentication for JMAP.
Transport security: It supports Rustls TLS and optional native TLS.
Configuration: It uses TOML configuration with multiple accounts and can output JSON with the --json option.
Discovery: Its setup wizard discovers mail services using PACC, Thunderbird autoconfiguration, DNS SRV lookups, and JMAP session resolution.
Proxy support: It supports SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies, configured per account or through environment variables.
Integrations: The project lists Vim, Emacs, and Raycast interfaces, plus OpenClaw and dfzf integrations.
Secret handling: Secret fields can use literal values or shell commands that print credentials; the README advises against literal secrets in production and says native keyring support was removed in v2.
OAuth limitation: Version 2 does not include an OAuth flow; the README recommends using an external token broker such as ortie.
Security policy: The security policy marks version 2.x supported and versions 1.x and 0.x unsupported.
License: The project is licensed under either MIT or Apache License 2.0.
Intended use: The maker describes Himalaya as a scriptable email tool for people who work in a terminal.

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Best Email Clients in 2026#110 of 143

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Sources

github.com/pimalaya/himalaya· checked 5 Oct 2026
github.com/pimalaya/himalaya/blob/master/SECURITY.· checked 5 Oct 2026
pimalaya.org· checked 5 Oct 2026