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:love_letter: A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.

19 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 4 stories, 15 comments · first 2017-09-07 · latest 2026-06-03

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  1. Try Mailspring. I’m a huge fan: https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring
    comment by notpushkin · 2026-06-03 · in Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
  2. I am using Mailspring (0) and it’s pretty good. (0) https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring
    comment by RockstarSprain · 2025-07-16 · in Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design
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    Mailspring: Cross-platform, fast, open source mail client
    story by thunderbong · 2025-02-03 · 26 comments
  4. …amount of time himself[0][1][2]. I daily drove it for a short while before moving to Fedora. 0: https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/533 1: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/tumbleweed-breaks-after-update... 2:…
    comment by RMPR · 2023-07-20 · in What's wrong with enterprise Linux
  5. …had an email client of their own as a proof of concept (forked by one of the original authors as https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring - and its reusable core https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring-Sync may be interesting to many…
    comment by btown · 2023-05-31 · in JMAP – a modern email open standard
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    Mailspring Is Dead
    story by WhyNotHugo · 2020-12-04 · 1 comment
  7. I thought this was the source? https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring Or are you referring to the cloud aspects of Mailspring, like read receipts etc?
    comment by DaveWalk · 2019-08-28 · in Thunderbird 68.0
  8. …is fine, but desktop is brutal unless you happen to prefer one of the few clients they support. [1] https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/429
    comment by throwaway_x13zd · 2019-04-25 · in ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography
  9. >Mailspring is the best open source option I discovered Mailspring is not opensource, only the UI is. https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/blob/master/ROADMAP...
    comment by plop_ · 2019-01-29 · in Gmail Services Global Outage
  10. I can definitely recommend Mailspring[0]. It has occasional quirks, but very stable. [0] https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring
    comment by stevenjohns · 2019-01-29 · in Gmail Services Global Outage
  11. …free version but they have subscription model with many features (which I don't necessarily need). https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring
    comment by malshe · 2018-11-17 · in Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
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    Canonical employees arguing that apps should only release snaps (no flatpak)
    story by kallisti5 · 2018-10-08 · 0 comments
  13. I use Mailspring ( https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring ). Neat features, sleek UI and also pretty fast.
    comment by mallochio · 2018-06-09 · in Ask HN: Email on Linux?
  14. …soon as available. I just don't like the thought of someone having hidden code touching my email. https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring
    comment by gravypod · 2017-12-20 · in New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff
  15. Hey! This is a bug—should be fixed in 1.0.2 later today: https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/17
    comment by bengotow · 2017-10-06 · in Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors
  16. https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/33#issuecomm...
    comment by helb · 2017-10-06 · in Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors
  17. …want out of those Link and Open Tracking features. (Edit): There's a GitHub issue related to it - https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/33 The dev is very clear about it --- but for now Mailspring needs to target paying customers…
    comment by _kwmj · 2017-10-06 · in Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors
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    Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors
    story by Operyl · 2017-10-06 · 89 comments
  19. …Nylas' sync engine (per the repo's readme [1]). [0]: https://github.com/MailCore/mailcore2 [1]: https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring#high-level-goals
    comment by rmccue · 2017-09-07 · in Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development