# Send email
email-lite send -s "192.168.1.1" -f "alerts@device.local" -t "admin@example.com" -sub "Alert" -body "Temperature high"
Modern email clients index your emails in the background, sometimes taking hours. Email Lite 1.4 uses a flat-file index. Searching for a sender or subject line returns results in less than 0.1 seconds, even on a hard drive.
Let’s break down the feature set. Do not expect AI-generated replies or smart inbox categorization. Do expect reliability.
Here is the most common question asked in forums: "Can I still use Email Lite 1.4 with Gmail today?" email lite 1.4
The answer is yes, but with a caveat. Gmail has disabled "Less secure apps" access. However, you can still configure Email Lite 1.4 using two methods:
Method 1: App Passwords (Recommended)
Method 2: Outlook/Hotmail
Microsoft is more forgiving. Use POP3: pop-mail.outlook.com (Port 995, SSL) and SMTP: smtp-mail.outlook.com (Port 587, TLS).
email-lite fetch -s "pop3.example.com" -u "user" -p "pass" # Send email
email-lite send -s "192
This is a big one. Email Lite 1.4 was released before telemetry became standard. It makes no "phone home" calls. There are no license checks, no usage tracking, no crash reports sent to developers. What happens on your computer stays on your computer.
