NOnotpushkin·Jun 3, 2026
Try Mailspring. I’m a huge fan: https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring
In Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I leftFoundry376
Mailspring
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Foundry376 / Mailspring
Mailspring
:love_letter: A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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19 sourcesI am using Mailspring (0) and it’s pretty good.
(0) https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring
In Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 DesignMailspring: Cross-platform, fast, open source mail client
60 points · Open discussionI fully agree, moreover this:
> Rolling release distributions like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed follow upstream much more closely while still maintaining stability through thorough automated testing
Shows the author hasn't used Tumbleweed for any reasonable amount of time himself[0][1][2]. I daily drove it for a short while before moving to Fedora.
0: https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/533
1: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/tumbleweed-breaks-after-update...
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/v09hnc/tumbleweed...
In What's wrong with enterprise LinuxI was hopeful that https://www.nylas.com/ would be the de-facto "adapter" placing a common API surface on top of the major providers and dragging them into a modern-API world. They even had an email client of their own as a proof of concept (forked by one of the original authors as https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring - and its reusable core https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring-Sync may be interesting to many here). But they've pivoted towards making their API only available behind B2B contracts and opaque pricing, and primarily used for corporate email monitoring and CRM use cases - perhaps because security and privacy considerations are nontrivial. I'm still rooting for them but it's a shadow of what it could have been.
In JMAP – a modern email open standardI thought this was the source? https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring
Or are you referring to the cloud aspects of Mailspring, like read receipts etc?
In Thunderbird 68.0While I appreciate advances in cryptography, I would rather protonmail work on things like getting their bridge returning properly formatted IMAP responses[1] so we can use whatever clients we want with it.
The mobile experience is fine, but desktop is brutal unless you happen to prefer one of the few clients they support.
[1] https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/429
In ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography>Mailspring is the best open source option I discovered
Mailspring is not opensource, only the UI is.
https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/blob/master/ROADMAP...
In Gmail Services Global OutageI can definitely recommend Mailspring[0].
It has occasional quirks, but very stable.
[0] https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring
In Gmail Services Global OutageI use Mailspring which is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. I use the free version but they have subscription model with many features (which I don't necessarily need).
https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring
In Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10Canonical employees arguing that apps should only release snaps (no flatpak)
1 points · Open discussionI use Mailspring (https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring). Neat features, sleek UI and also pretty fast.
In Ask HN: Email on Linux?I currently use ThuderBird but I'm very sad about the lack of some basic features (grouping email chains?).
I wish someone would make an open source replacement to Mailspring's sync engine. I'd switch to that as soon as available. I just don't like the thought of someone having hidden code touching my email.
https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring
In New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird StaffHey! This is a bug—should be fixed in 1.0.2 later today: https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/17
In Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authorsShowing the 15 most recent of 19 sources. Enable JavaScript to search and browse every indexed mention.