# Cone vs Himalaya

- Cone: Full-screen console mail client and newsreader from the Courier mail server project.
- Himalaya: Command-line email client written in Rust that lists, reads, sends and moves mail through shell commands with JSON output.

## Differences

- Cone is a full-screen terminal client; Himalaya is a command-line program.
- Only Cone has built-in POP3 and mbox.
- Only Himalaya has built-in JMAP.
- On Linux, Cone builds from source and Himalaya runs natively.
- On macOS, Cone is not available and Himalaya runs natively.
- On Windows, Cone runs through WSL and Himalaya runs natively.
- On BSD, Cone runs natively and Himalaya builds from source.
- Cone has OpenPGP; Himalaya does not.
- Himalaya has OAuth2 sign-in; Cone does not.
- Cone is written in C++; Himalaya in Rust.
- Configuration: Cone uses interactive setup screens; settings saved under ~/.cone, and Himalaya uses TOML file; interactive setup wizard.

## Side by side

| | Cone | Himalaya |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Interface | Full-screen terminal interface | Command-line tools and prompts |
| Language | C++ | Rust |
| License | GPL 3.0 | MIT or Apache 2.0 |
| Linux | Build from source | Native |
| macOS | Not supported | Native |
| Windows | Through WSL | Native |
| BSD | Native | Build from source |
| Android | Not supported | Not supported |
| IMAP | Yes | Yes |
| POP3 | Yes | No |
| SMTP | Yes | Yes |
| JMAP | No | Yes |
| Maildir | Yes | Yes |
| mbox | Yes | No |
| notmuch | No | No |
| OpenPGP | Yes | No |
| S/MIME | No | No |
| OAuth2 sign-in | No | via script |
| Threads | Yes | through the IMAP, JMAP and Gmail subcommands |
| Search | built-in folder search; server-side on IMAP | built-in query syntax across backends; server-side for IMAP and JMAP |
| HTML mail | built-in HTML renderer | No |
| Mouse | No | No |
| Multiple accounts | Yes | Yes |
| Offline use | No | with the Maildir backend and a sync tool such as mbsync |
| Calendar | No | No |
| Contacts | built-in address books, stored locally, in an IMAP folder, or on LDAP | No |
| Vim-style keys | No | No |
| Configuration | interactive setup screens; settings saved under ~/.cone | TOML file; interactive setup wizard |

Pages: [Cone](https://terminalemail.com/clients/cone/index.md), [Himalaya](https://terminalemail.com/clients/himalaya/index.md)