pop

Pop

Send emails from your terminal.

Text-based User Interface

Launch the TUI

pop

Command Line Interface

pop < message.md \
    --from "me@example.com" \
    --to "you@example.com" \
    --subject "Hello, world!" \
    --attach invoice.pdf

Setup

pop works great with Resend, and the quickest way to get started is to run to authenticate with Resend via OAuth:

pop auth

You can also set a RESEND_API_KEY in your environment:

export RESEND_API_KEY=$(pass RESEND_API_KEY)

(You can get a Resend API key at https://resend.com/api-keys.)

SMTP

To configure pop to use SMTP, you can set the following environment variables.

export POP_SMTP_HOST="smtp.gmail.com"
export POP_SMTP_PORT=587
export POP_SMTP_USERNAME="pop@charm.land"
export POP_SMTP_PASSWORD="babyfrogsquad"

Other Settings

To avoid typing your From: email address, you can also set the POP_FROM environment to pre-fill the field anytime you launch pop.

export POP_FROM="pop@charm.land"
export POP_SIGNATURE="Sent with [Pop](https://github.com/charmbracelet/pop)!"

Set POP_PLAINTEXT=true or pass --plaintext to send the body as plain text instead of rendering Markdown to HTML.

Note: If you wish to use a resend account without a custom domain, you can use onboarding@resend.dev to send emails.

Installation

Use a package manager:

# macOS or Linux
brew install pop

# Nix
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.pop

# Arch (btw)
yay -S charm-pop-bin

Install with Go:

go install github.com/charmbracelet/pop@latest

Or download a binary from the releases.

AI Agents and Skills

AI agents work great with pop. pop --help is typically enough to get them going, but you can maximize their pop abilities with the builtin pop skill command, which you can just print to stdout, or write to disk:

mkdir -p .skills/pop
pop skill > .skills/pop/SKILL.md

If you’re using Crush, Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, or Pi there’s also a pop install-skill command

pop install-skill crush  # install the Crush skill
pop install-skill codex  # install the Codex skill
pop install-skill --help # more info

Examples

Pop can be combined with other tools to create powerful email pipelines, such as:

• charmbracelet/mods
• charmbracelet/gum
• maaslalani/invoice

Crush

Use crush with pop to write an email body with AI:

Note: Use the --preview flag to preview the email and make changes before sending.

pop <<< "$(crush run 'Explain why CLIs are awesome')" \
    --subject "The command line is the best" \
    --preview

• charmbracelet/crush

Gum

Use gum with pop to choose an email to send to and from:

pop --from $(gum choose "vt50@charm.land" "vt78@charm.sh" "vt100@charm.sh")
    --to $(gum filter < contacts.txt)

• charmbracelet/gum

Invoice

Use invoice with pop to generate and send invoices entirely from the command line.

FILENAME=invoice.pdf
invoice generate --item "Rubber Ducky" --rate 25 --quantity 2 --output $FILENAME
pop --attach $FILENAME --body "See attached invoice."

• maaslalani/invoice

Feedback

We’d love to hear your thoughts on this project. Feel free to drop us a note!

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License

MIT

Part of Charm.

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