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Mailspring: Cross-platform, fast, open source mail client (github.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] juli 2 points 2 days ago

PSA: Made with Electron

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Looks like a mix of apple mail and thunderbird

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Thupple Mard, if you will.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It looks almost exactly like Geary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Looks like it’s no fully FOSS. The UI is, but the syncing backend is proprietary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Where are you reading that? The reademe in the repo says the sync tool is gplv3. Its a separate process (c++ vs react) but still open source. Admittedly that's as far as I read.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The longDescript. Attribute: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/by-name/ma/mailspring/package.nix#L11

This could be outdated/wrong though.

[–] br3d 1 points 3 days ago

It looks really good. Right now it can't handle Outlook calendars, but I'll try it again once that's working