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

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  • iced

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

  • jmap

    JSON Meta Application Protocol Specification (JMAP)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Cypht

    Cypht: Lightweight Open Source webmail written in PHP and JavaScript

  • 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.

  • email-oauth2-proxy

    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

  • 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.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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