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Standards-only, no backend,\nfree.\n\n## The name\n\n*Zirbe* is German for the Swiss stone pine, the pine of the Alps. The name\ncontinues a lineage of text-mode mail clients that runs **Elm → Pine → Alpine**,\nand lands on another pine. The hidden meaning is the point: it reads like a\ncoined word and rewards anyone who looks it up.\n\n## What it is\n\nA conversation in Zirbe is an email **thread**, not a person. A thread is\nidentified by the RFC 5322 `Message-ID`, `In-Reply-To`, and `References`\nheaders and shown like a named group chat: the **subject is the title**, the\npeople on `From`/`To`/`Cc` are the members, and each message is one bubble in\ntime order. The same person writing five different-subject threads produces\nfive conversations, which is correct email behavior. Starting a new\nconversation requires naming it, and that name is the subject.\n\n## Principles\n\nApple Messages is the aesthetic muse, never a clone. We implement only what the\nemail RFCs define (5321 SMTP, 5322 message format, 2045/2046/2047 MIME) and\nnothing that isn't email: no video or voice calls, no shared notes, tasks, or\nteam workspaces. The CheckIn privacy posture carries over wholesale: no\nbackend, no third-party SDKs, no telemetry. Credentials and tokens live in the\nKeychain, device-bound, never synced off the device that obtained them. The\nonly network destinations are the user's own mail servers and identity\nproviders.\n\n## Status\n\nEarly. The mail engine is [Cocoanetics/SwiftMail](https://github.com/Cocoanetics/SwiftMail),\na mature actor-based async IMAP and SMTP client, consumed through a thin\nadapter in `Packages/ZirbeMail` (a `MailEngine` actor returning Zirbe-owned\nvalue types, so the engine stays swappable). It compiles and links for iOS\n(device and simulator) and is proven end to end: connecting, authenticating,\nselecting a mailbox, and fetching message envelopes with their threading\nheaders against a live account. Next up is `ZirbeCore` (domain models, JWZ\nthreading, the GRDB store) and the read-only conversation UI.\n\n## License\n\nMIT. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fexcelano%2Fzirbe","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fexcelano%2Fzirbe","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fexcelano%2Fzirbe/lists"}