The Future of Thunderbird: Why We’re Rebuilding from the Ground Up

1. iced

   1 180 27,052 9.8 Rust

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

   

2. Stream

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   Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

   

3. jmap

   2 35 1,294 7.5 Makefile

   JSON Meta Application Protocol Specification (JMAP)

   

4. Cypht

   3 16 1,137 9.6 PHP

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

   

5. Mailspring

   4 69 16,425 7.4 JavaScript

   :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

   5 20 1,108 7.4 Python

   An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that transparently adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for email clients that don't support this method.

   

   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

   6 77 10,697 4.6 Rust

   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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