Mailpile is what email should be these days. No ads, no NSA intrusions, private, fast and well-organized. Unfortunately email is not like this everywhere.
Started out as a crowd-funded project and with a specific goal of ending intrusions in our email accounts, Mailpile will allow developers to host an email client either on their own computers or on an online server where only a selected group of people have access to.
Even if the code is written in Python and sometimes ran from a meager laptop, users can access Mailpile using any browser they like and still get a pretty fast application.
The client works and looks beautifully, benefiting from the latest HTML5 design trends, UX patterns and using a classic inbox UI that most email services these days are abandoning for some weird nested-prioritized-convo-threaded-bla-bla designs that make following a discussion harder than it should be.
On top of this, OpenPGP signatures and email data encryption are standard features, so your email inbox is always protected from prying eyes, even if the PC where Mailpile runs from is stolen or broken into.
As you can see, quite different from today's World where the NSA practically lives in your Gmail or Yahoo accounts, and your personal emails could easily be shared on social networks by some employee having a bad day.
If you value your privacy more than anything else, than the Mailpile project is something you should be keeping an eye on in the future.
What is new in this release:
- Good instructions for bad key handling.
What is new in version 0.4.3:
- Good instructions for bad key handling.
What is new in version 0.4.0:
- A powerful e-mail client capable of reading, writing, organizing and searching large volumes of e-mail
- An attractive, intuitive web-based user interface
- An interactive user-friendly setup procedure
- Native Windows and Mac packages
- Native support for downloading mail using the IMAP protocol
- New interfaces for discovering and importing PGP keys
What is new in version 201401 Alpha:
- Support for reading mail stored in mbox, Maildir, Thunderbird, Mac Mail.app and GMVault formats.
- Support for importing contact details from the GnuPG keychain and Thunderbird
- Selected messages can be exported en-masse to a portable mbox file
- Fast, extensible, custom search engine
- The search index is stored using a one-way hash to protect sensitive data
- Integrated user-friendly PGP support
- Alternate text and shell-based user interfaces available for power users
- Message strings in Python and HTML can be translated
- Work has begun translating Mailpile into roughly 30 languages
- Plugin hooks for numerous types of interactions
- Most core functionality is built using the plugin architecture
- All API actions available as JSON-based API endpoints
Limitations:
- Still under development.
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