Mailspring VS Mailspring-Libre

I fully agree, moreover this:

> Rolling release distributions like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed follow upstream much more closely while still maintaining stability through thorough automated testing

Shows the author hasn't used Tumbleweed for any reasonable 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: https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/v09hnc/tumbleweed...

/u/protonmail is the a reason why there's been no effort on this front? It appears that it comes down to some sort of handshake issue but I can't imagine this is that hard to fix.

I was hopeful that https://www.nylas.com/ would be the de-facto "adapter" placing a common API surface on top of the major providers and dragging them into a modern-API world. They even 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 here). But they've pivoted towards making their API only available behind B2B contracts and opaque pricing, and primarily used for corporate email monitoring and CRM use cases - perhaps because security and privacy considerations are nontrivial. I'm still rooting for them but it's a shadow of what it could have been.

Mailspring

Mailspring- A great email client for windows (Opensource + Freemium)

I love Mailspring, it's modern and open source: https://getmailspring.com/

The UI uses Electron, but the actual sync engine is in C++, so it's pretty fast.

The only app I’m aware of which translates emails is this; https://getmailspring.com

Mailspring is quite nice. It also has a paid version and is actively updated so I think it's likely to stick around for awhile.

Mailspring, which is open source, is currently my recommendation for a desktop email client.

Mailspring. Open-source and fully local, but an optional account and optional subscription for premium cloud-based features. Thunderbird was too cluttered and Geary, although I really wanted to like it, was just too minimal.

If you want to give it a try I recommend you to use libre version since the telemetry has been removed in that one: https://github.com/notpushkin/Mailspring-Libre

Seconding the Mailspring recommendation, but be aware that it requires a Mailspring ID. There’s some progress, though, with a telemetry-free fork[1] (that’s the version I’m using right now) and plans to make the ID optional in the official client [2].

[1]: https://github.com/notpushkin/Mailspring-Libre

[2]: https://community.getmailspring.com/t/mailspring-without-mai...

N. B. Please note that Mailspring Libre build isn't fully open source right now: the sync engine, MailSync, is proprietary, and while we're working on replacing it, it probably won't happen anytime soon. By downloading Mailspring Libre build, you accept the MailSync license (which doesn't affect you as a regular user).

I've just started using Mailspring-Libre. I've only used it for basic scenarios so far but I have no complaints. I can't speak for power-user features yet.