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https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile

A free & open modern, fast email client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features
https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile

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A free & open modern, fast email client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features

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README 

        
# Welcome to Mailpile! #



**IMPORTANT NOTE**



Development on this codebase has halted, until the

[Python3 rewrite](https://community.mailpile.is/t/a-very-uninformative-progress-update-mailpile-2/785)

has completed.



Apologies to those who have unanswered, out-standing pull requests and

issues. 😢 Your efforts are appreciated!



If you rely on this code and have your own branch which you actively

maintain, let us know: we would be happy to link to it.



If you need to run Mailpile v1 to access legacy data, consider using

our [legacy Docker images](https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile-v1-Docker).



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## Introduction (Obsolete) ##



Mailpile () is a modern, fast web-mail client

with user-friendly encryption and privacy features. The development of

Mailpile is funded by

[a large community of backers](https://www.mailpile.is/#community)

and all code related to the project is and will be released under an OSI

approved Free Software license.



Mailpile places great emphasis on providing a clean, elegant user

interface and pleasant user experience. In particular, Mailpile aims to

make it easy and convenient to receive and send PGP encrypted or signed

e-mail.



Mailpile's primary user interface is web-based, but it also has a basic

command-line interface and an API for developers. Using web technology

for the interface allows Mailpile to function both as a local desktop

application (accessed by visiting `localhost` in the browser) or a

remote web-mail on a personal server or VPS.



The core of Mailpile is a fast search engine, custom written to deal

with large volumes of e-mail on consumer hardware. The search engine

allows e-mail to be organized using tags (similar to GMail's labels) and

the application can be configured to automatically tag incoming mail

either based on static rules or bayesian classifiers.



### Trying Mailpile



If you need to run Mailpile v1 to access legacy data, consider using

our [legacy Docker images](https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile-v1-Docker).



## Credits and License ##



Bjarni R. Einarsson () created this!  If you

think it's neat, you should also check out PageKite:

. [Smári]() and

[Brennan](https://brennannovak.com) joined the team in 2013 and made

this a real project (not just a toy search engine).



The original GMail team deserve a mention for their inspiring work:

wishing the Free Software world had something like GMail is what

motivated Bjarni to start working on Mailpile. We would also like to

thank Edward Snowden for inspiring us to try and make PGP usable for

journalists and everday folks!



Contributors:



- Bjarni R. Einarsson ()

- Brennan Novak ()

- Smari McCarthy ()

- Lots more, run `git shortlog -s` for a list! (Or check

  [GitHub](https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/graphs/contributors).)



And of course, we couldn't do this without [our community of

backers](https://www.mailpile.is/#community).



This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it

under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation. See the file `COPYING.md` for details.