i cant send a email using aerc

pmtk_milk · Yesterday 14:47:46

Hi. Well, i decided to make my email my primary form of communication because the pc im using now doesnt have enough memory to have open discord, whatsapp and other things.
I installed the package aerc because geary dont worked for me so i preferred aerc was a hell to setup my hotmail but i was able to setup it now i wanted to write a email, because i dont have installed vim aerc used instead nano but i dont knowed that, so i wrote the email but when i do CTRL + X to close nano and aerc give that type of terminal the ": " thing but i wasnt able to find the command to send the email, then i installed vim because i learned that aerc uses vim if is installed and with a command ":wq" it closes the editor and open a reviewer but when i tried again aerc said that "wq" doesnt exist so i get frustrated and because i dont know how to use vim i uninstalled it. Im really a newbie in this of terminal programs, i only use the terminal for pacman, ping and things that dont require too much brain, but this is out of my range. Maybe installing packages fix it but i alredy installed all of this w3m perl-email-reply perl-email-send perl-email-sender perl-email-simple
perl-email-abstract perl-email-address perl-email-address-xs perl-email-date-format ksmtp postfix but nothing worked

SimonJ · Yesterday 14:55:33

In aerc.conf you can choose any editor you like

[compose]
#
# Specifies the command to run the editor with. It will be shown in an embedded
# terminal, though it may also launch a graphical window if the environment
# supports it. Defaults to $EDITOR, or vi.
editor=vim

pmtk_milk · Today 02:22:39

SimonJ wrote:

In aerc.conf you can choose any editor you like

[compose]
#
# Specifies the command to run the editor with. It will be shown in an embedded
# terminal, though it may also launch a graphical window if the environment
# supports it. Defaults to $EDITOR, or vi.
editor=vim

Yes but i prefer nano because is more easy to use. Thanks but still i cant find the command that sends the mail or i think is because i dont know how to close the editor after i write my email

SimonJ · Today 03:54:15

Yes this is not an aerc problem, when you learn the editor controls aerc will ask you if you want to send or give all the options in one final screen. Good luck with nano. :-)

patrick4370 · Today 05:23:42

Ctrl+x is quitting nano without saving. So aerc is never going to send anything as the buffer wasn't saved. You'll need to do Ctrl+o to save the file and Ctrl+x to quit. Then the send menu will come up.

cryptearth · Today 06:06:57

as installing arch nowdays requires quite a lot of ram to unpack the install ramdisk and even get to an install prompt - about how much of ram and other components are we talking here?
i don't want to discourage anyone going the terminal route - but unless the system has no gpu at all to hookup a monitor everything capable of running the arch install media should be capable of some lightweight DE like xfce or lxqt and some lightweight browser and mail client
something doesn't add up here

as an alternative: how about using mutt? i used it with vim on my mail server - simple setup and just works

SimonJ · Today 08:55:35

aerc is a very capable email client, I moved from betterbird to it. It does however need configuring and likewise an understanding of the commands for it and the chosen editor.

I don't think aerc is at fault here, I agree the command is exiting without saving the composition and therefore not triggering aerc send options.

pmtk_milk · Today 12:53:40

patrick4370 wrote:

Ctrl+x is quitting nano without saving. So aerc is never going to send anything as the buffer wasn't saved. You'll need to do Ctrl+o to save the file and Ctrl+x to quit. Then the send menu will come up.

Is that? Well when i save the .eml and i quit nothing happens, and when i type ":preview /ami/coe/sld/prueba.eml" it says malformed MIME header or something like that

seth · Today 14:19:14

or something like that

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Also

Well when i save the .eml

If :wq in god's own editor works aerc will create a temporary file, open it in the editor or what nano tries to be, wait for the process to terminate, check the status code and contents of the temporary file and act accordingly.
=> Don't save that in some random location, just write the file.

No idea how that thing works, but https://man.archlinux.org/man/nano.1#NOTES sounds like ctrl+q exits w/ a status code that's not 0
=> try ctrl+s ctrl+x
https://man.archlinux.org/man/nano.1#EDITING

What text editor do you normally use to edit files and why is it not https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sqriptor-git ?

SimonJ · Today 15:14:22

In aerc I type C to compose, fill in the details and then save and exit in vim, I then see this screen

If I say y to send it just goes, so either aerc is not configured properly or you are adding code that is breaking the email.

pmtk_milk · Today 15:41:40

seth wrote:

or something like that
Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Also
Well when i save the .eml
If :wq in god's own editor works aerc will create a temporary file, open it in the editor or what nano tries to be, wait for the process to terminate, check the status code and contents of the temporary file and act accordingly.
=> Don't save that in some random location, just write the file.
No idea how that thing works, but https://man.archlinux.org/man/nano.1#NOTES sounds like ctrl+q exits w/ a status code that's not 0
=> try ctrl+s ctrl+x
https://man.archlinux.org/man/nano.1#EDITING
What text editor do you normally use to edit files and why is it not https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sqriptor-git ?

Well, i use mousepad and i dont knowed about the existence of that package. I tried CTRL + S then CTRL + X but nothing, the same thing

pmtk_milk · Today 15:44:19

SimonJ wrote:

In aerc I type C to compose, fill in the details and then save and exit in vim, I then see this screen
https://i.ibb.co/xqGw7JrF/Clipboard-2026-08-23-17-12-02.png
If I say y to send it just goes, so either aerc is not configured properly or you are adding code that is breaking the email.

I dont have vim installed so aerc uses nano instead, and i dont added any code to the email just text like "correo de prueba" because i was testing aerc for sending emails

seth · Today 15:52:15

Why are you not using mousepad with aerc?

just text like "correo de prueba"

Above or below the header fileds?

cryptearth · Today 16:09:22

pmtk_milk wrote:

i dont knowed

about as bad as my "didn't knew"
we both shall use https://deepl.com more often

pmtk_milk · Today 16:35:58

seth wrote:

Why are you not using mousepad with aerc?
just text like "correo de prueba"
Above or below the header fileds?

mmm... Really i dont know what to answer but is below the To:, From: and Subject: fields

pmtk_milk · Today 16:39:24

cryptearth wrote:

pmtk_milk wrote:
i dont knowed
about as bad as my "didn't knew"
we both shall use https://deepl.com more often

The page says that they use AI for the translate so i prefer to continue with my typos
(Maybe all translator use algoritms for the translation but yk...)

SimonJ · Today 16:53:51

pmtk_milk wrote:

seth wrote:
Why are you not using mousepad with aerc?
just text like "correo de prueba"
Above or below the header fileds?
mmm... Really i dont know what to answer but is below the To:, From: and Subject: fields

Have you completed the to and subject fields? Check the @ is correct, I don't know nano but maybe the layout is wrong?

pmtk_milk · Today 16:57:26

SimonJ wrote:

pmtk_milk wrote:
seth wrote:
Why are you not using mousepad with aerc?

Above or below the header fileds?
mmm... Really i dont know what to answer but is below the To:, From: and Subject: fields
Have you completed the to and subject fields? Check the @ is correct, I don't know nano but maybe the layout is wrong?

I filled the fields.

seth · Today 19:08:23

seth wrote:

Why are you not using mousepad with aerc?

On a formal note, can we please stop the mindless full quoting of previous posts to keep our mouse wheels cool?

pmtk_milk · Today 23:17:57

seth wrote:

On a formal note, can we please stop the mindless full quoting of previous posts to keep our mouse wheels cool?

Uh ok

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