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elementary / mail

mail

Mail app designed for elementary OS

5Distinct people
8Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
215GitHub stars
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What it is

Mail app designed for elementary OS

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 8:59:20 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-01-17 10:34:21 UTC to 2022-07-05 20:06:06 UTC.

01232018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Thunderbird is the most popular choice and supports add-ons. For comprehensive alternatives to Microsoft Outlook, Evolution is well-integrated into GNOME, while KMail (part of Kontact) is well-integrated into KDE. Alternatively, Geary (GTK+ 3 based, adopted by GNOME), Pantheon Mail (Elementary's fork of Geary), Claws Mail (lightweight GTK+ 2 based), Sylpheed (lightweight GTK+ 2 based), Trojitá (lightweight Qt 5 based), Kube (Qt 5 based, integrates with Kolab Now), and Mutt (text-based) also work on Linux. All of these applications are free and open-source, and some of them also work on Windows and macOS. Thunderbird: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/ Evolution: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/ KMail: https://www.kde.org/applications/internet/kmail/ Geary: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary Pantheon Mail: https://github.com/elementar
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In Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
There are work in progress right now, e.g. trojita[1], caliopen[2], kube[3], ... Setting up your personal email server correctly hassle free: mail-in-a-box[4] Most gmail features requires losing all expectations of privacy and as such are not desirable or feasible. That said IINM full text search already exists in kde's kmail. I have no use for threaded conversations across folder, so I have no suggestions for this, sorry. Maintained opensource webmails do exist, e.g. roundcube[5], mailpile[6], rainloop[7], zimbra[8], ... Non thunderbird desktop clients do exist too: claws[9], sylpheed[10], kmail[11], mail[12], geary[13], ... [1]: https://trojita.flaska.net/ [2]: https://www.caliopen.org/en/ [3]: https://kube.kde.org/ [4]: https://mailinabox.email/ and https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox [5]: https://roundcube.net/ [6]: https://ww
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In Thunderbird Starts Working on Improving Its Interface

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