Alot
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Alot, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Alot's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Alot | Free | Free software under GPL-3.0 |
The facts
Each one read from Alot's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- App coverage
- desktopchecked 20 Sep 2026
What it does
- Composition
- It can open terminal windows for asynchronous mail editing and supports forwarding, replying, and group replies.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Customization
- Users can configure keyboard maps, colour and layout themes, Python event hooks, and contact lookup commands.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Dependencies
- Alot depends on notmuch and urwid, among other listed libraries and Python bindings.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Email retrieval
- The FAQ says Alot does not fetch, send, or edit mail itself; it uses notmuch for the mail index and relies on external tools for mail handling.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Encryption
- Alot supports constructing signed and encrypted PGP/MIME mail through GnuPG and requires a running gpg-agent for GPG use.checked 12 Oct 2026
- HTML rendering
- Inline HTML rendering requires a mailcap entry for an external renderer such as w3m.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Interface
- It provides a modular, command-prompt-driven interface as an alternative to the Emacs mode shipped with notmuch.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Mail handling
- Alot can print or pipe messages and threads and offers a configurable status bar with notification popups.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Mail sending
- Alot supports multiple accounts for sending mail through sendmail.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Offline access
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Alot is a terminal-based mail user agent for the notmuch mail system.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Sending limitation
- Sending mail is supported only through a sendmail shell command.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project invites questions and suggestions in the #alot IRC channel on Libera.Chat and through GitHub issues or pull requests.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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