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    pimalaya

    pimalaya/himalaya

    CLI to manage emails

    cli
    client
    email
    gpg
    himalaya
    imap
    Rust
    Apache-2.0
    7.6K stars
    267 forks
    42 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 7, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 36 days ago, with 68 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #32 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 15, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a command-line interface to manage emails using multiple backends like IMAP, Maildir, Notmuch, SMTP, and Sendmail.
    • Enables flexible, stateless email management with extensive configuration options and support for PGP encryption and OAuth 2.0 authentication.
    • Use for automating email workflows and scripting email management in terminal environments with Rust-based reliability.
    • Ideal for developers needing a customizable CLI email client supporting multiple accounts and secure authentication methods.
    • Use for integrating email handling into custom Rust applications or building new email interfaces leveraging Himalaya's email-lib.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    CLI to manage emails

    Himalaya CLI is written in Rust, and relies on cargo features to enable or disable functionalities. Default features can be found in the features section of the Cargo.toml, or on docs.rs.

    Excerpt from the pimalaya/himalaya README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 11: +9Aug 12: +4

    +612 stars over 90 days across 9 snapshot days; best day +9 on Aug 11.

    Forks

    267+42

    Open issues

    10-3

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