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    A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

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  3. jmap

    JSON Meta Application Protocol Specification (JMAP)

  4. Cypht

    Cypht: Lightweight Open Source webmail aggregator [PHP, JS]. Supports IMAP/SMTP, JMAP and EWS (Exchange Web Services)

  5. Mailspring

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

    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.

  6. email-oauth2-proxy

    An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that transparently adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for email clients that don't support this method. Keep legacy email clients working with Exchange Online, Gmail and other providers.

    If you use this proxy of mine then any IMAP (or POP/SMTP) client can be used with a “modern” email provider, regardless of whether it supports OAuth 2.0 natively: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy

  7. nostr

    a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working

    We should pay very close attention to https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr as I think the future of app development is letting multiple clients implement their own custom UI layers on top of a shared core.

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