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Dev tools · November 18, 2014

MailPile

A fast, responsive open source email client

MailPile launched on November 18, 2014 with 75 votes, #688 of 1,965 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

> Mailpile is an e-mail client! > Mailpile is a search engine and a personal webmail server. > Mailpile is an easy way to encrypt your e-mail. > Mailpile is software you run yourself, on your own computer. About that... we are currently working on rewriting and modernizing the Mailpile code-base, moving from Python 2 to Python 3 and fixing a whole bunch of things in the process. We are also exploring the possibility of creating a dedicated hardware device, to make it easy for people to keep their personal Mailpile up and running 24/7, without needing to upload their data to the cloud. Check out the blog and community discourse for progress reports and details. Mailpile exists because of our…from mailpile.is

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