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I have the feeling that the Open Source community left the email world a while ago. There is almost nothing happening there. You may argue that it's because em

I have the feeling that the Open Source community left the email world a while ago. There is almost nothing happening there. You may argue that it's because email is a solved problem by now, but I don't think so: Setting your own personal email server? Still a hassle to do correctly. Full text search a la Gmail? You can forget it. Threaded conversations across folders? Not for you. Hosting a webmail? Good luck finding a maintained one. Want a desktop client? The flagship Thunderbird is not the healthiest project right now. I would really like to see the Redis or the Golang of emails.

bigbugbag 9y ago
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/ https://trojita.flaska.net/ [2]: https://www.caliopen.org/en/ https://www.caliopen.org/en/ [3]: https://kube.kde.org/ https://kube.kde.org/ [4]: https://mailinabox.email/ https://mailinabox.email/ and https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox [5]: https://roundcube.net/ https://roundcube.net/ [6]: https://www.mailpile.is/ https://www.mailpile.is/ [7]: https://www.rainloop.net/ https://www.rainloop.net/ [8]: https://www.zimbra.com/ https://www.zimbra.com/ [9]: http://www.claws-mail.org/ http://www.claws-mail.org/ [10]: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ [11]: https://userbase.kde.org/KMail https://userbase.kde.org/KMail [12]: https://github.com/elementary/mail https://github.com/elementary/mail [13]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary
- bigbugbag 9y ago
  I should also mention modoboa[1] which is an opensource mail hosting solution with a web interface. [1]: https://modoboa.org/en/ https://modoboa.org/en/ [1]: https://github.com/modoboa/modoboa https://github.com/modoboa/modoboa

bigbugbag 9y ago

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/ https://trojita.flaska.net/ [2]: https://www.caliopen.org/en/ https://www.caliopen.org/en/ [3]: https://kube.kde.org/ https://kube.kde.org/ [4]: https://mailinabox.email/ https://mailinabox.email/ and https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox [5]: https://roundcube.net/ https://roundcube.net/ [6]: https://www.mailpile.is/ https://www.mailpile.is/ [7]: https://www.rainloop.net/ https://www.rainloop.net/ [8]: https://www.zimbra.com/ https://www.zimbra.com/ [9]: http://www.claws-mail.org/ http://www.claws-mail.org/ [10]: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ [11]: https://userbase.kde.org/KMail https://userbase.kde.org/KMail [12]: https://github.com/elementary/mail https://github.com/elementary/mail [13]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary

bigbugbag 9y ago
I should also mention modoboa[1] which is an opensource mail hosting solution with a web interface. [1]: https://modoboa.org/en/ https://modoboa.org/en/ [1]: https://github.com/modoboa/modoboa https://github.com/modoboa/modoboa