# Himalaya vs Wanderlust

- Himalaya: Command-line email client written in Rust that lists, reads, sends and moves mail through shell commands with JSON output.
- Wanderlust: Mail and news reader for Emacs, written in Emacs Lisp, with built-in IMAP, POP3, NNTP and SMTP support.

## Differences

- Himalaya is a command-line program; Wanderlust is a mail client that runs inside Emacs.
- Only Himalaya has built-in JMAP.
- Only Wanderlust has built-in POP3.
- On Windows, Himalaya runs natively and Wanderlust runs through WSL.
- On BSD, Himalaya builds from source and Wanderlust runs natively.
- On Android, Himalaya is not available and Wanderlust runs through Termux.
- Wanderlust has mouse support; Himalaya does not.
- Wanderlust has OpenPGP; Himalaya does not.
- Himalaya is written in Rust; Wanderlust in Emacs Lisp.
- Configuration: Himalaya uses TOML file; interactive setup wizard, and Wanderlust uses Emacs Lisp in ~/.wl, folder list in ~/.folders.

## Side by side

| | Himalaya | Wanderlust |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Interface | Command-line tools and prompts | Runs inside Emacs |
| Language | Rust | Emacs Lisp |
| License | MIT or Apache 2.0 | GPL 2.0 or later |
| Linux | Native | Native |
| macOS | Native | Native |
| Windows | Native | Through WSL |
| BSD | Build from source | Native |
| Android | Not supported | Through Termux |
| IMAP | Yes | Yes |
| POP3 | No | Yes |
| SMTP | Yes | Yes |
| JMAP | Yes | No |
| Maildir | Yes | Yes |
| mbox | No | No |
| notmuch | No | Through a separate tool |
| OpenPGP | No | Yes |
| S/MIME | No | No |
| OAuth2 sign-in | via script | via oauth2.el |
| Threads | through the IMAP, JMAP and Gmail subcommands | Yes |
| Search | built-in query syntax across backends; server-side for IMAP and JMAP | IMAP server-side search; local search via mu, notmuch, grep or namazu |
| HTML mail | No | via mime-w3m (emacs-w3m) |
| Mouse | No | Yes |
| Multiple accounts | Yes | Yes |
| Offline use | with the Maildir backend and a sync tool such as mbsync | message cache and disconnected operation |
| Calendar | No | No |
| Contacts | No | built-in address book |
| Vim-style keys | No | No |
| Configuration | TOML file; interactive setup wizard | Emacs Lisp in ~/.wl, folder list in ~/.folders |

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