Top 4 C Mail Projects

Mailspring

68 15,076 7.9 C

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

Project mention: What Is Wrong with Enterprise Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-20

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...

neomutt

11 3,062 9.8 C

✉️ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks -- IRC: #neomutt on irc.libera.chat

Project mention: Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-29

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt is a mature project with similar functionality in its arsenal via tagging and vim bindings, not limited to gmail either. You can also write emails in vim/$EDITOR fluidly.

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Dovecot

10 896 9.7 C

Dovecot mail server (by dovecot)

Project mention: My collection of Ansible roles for self-hosting everything with Rocky Linux and FreeIPA | /r/selfhosted | 2023-06-02

Mail server using Postfix, Dovecot, and Rspamd

ESP-Mail-Client

8 179 8.2 C

The comprehensive Arduino Email Client Library to send and read Email for Arduino devices. The library also supports other network shields or modules e.g., Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and GSM/4G modules.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).