Alot

alot

Alot is a terminal-based mail user agent for the notmuch mail system.

Runs as alot|macOS, Linux|alot.readthedocs.io

Open form in Otty otty.toml

Command form

ai-draft · 2 tasks · 7 fields

Open alot, optionally with a search query or compose. Debug-level and log options are left out.

Opens the form; the finished command lands at your prompt, unrun

Run in Otty

otty gui alot

Start alotExample values, fixed in this page — nothing here reaches a terminal

Basic

Start in*

Searchenum

Search query*

string

TasksEach one presets the form for one job

Search mail

subcommandquery

Browse read-only

read_only

ParametersOnly these flags are editable in the form

Read-only database

boolean

--read-only-r

Config file

path

--config-c

Notmuch config file

path

--notmuch-config-n

Colours

enum

--colour-mode-C116256

Notmuch index path

path

--mailindex-path-p

Start in

enum · positional 0

searchcomposebufferlisttaglistnamedqueries

Search query

Only used with Start in = Search.
string · positional 1

SourcesEvery flag above is checked against these

manpage

alot [options …] [subcommand] -r, --read-only open notmuch database in read-only mode -c FILENAME, --config=FILENAME configuration file (default: ~/.config/alot/config) -n FILENAME, --notmuch-config=FILENAME notmuch configuration file (default: see notmuch-config(1)) -C COLOURS, --colour-mode=COLOURS number of colours to use on the terminal; must be 1, 16 or…

manual0.12-3

manpages.debian.org

Before it fills your prompt, Otty checks the installed alot against its version. A form that does not match your version is not offered.