Original author(s) | Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson, Brennan Novak, Smári McCarthy [1] [2] |
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Developer(s) | The Mailpile Team |
Initial release | 13 September 2014[3] |
Stable release | 1.0.0rc6 (September 4, 2019[4]) [±] |
Repository | |
Written in | Python |
Operating system | Linux, macOS, Windows |
Platform | Web platform |
Available in | More than 14 languages [5] Arabic (ar) Danish (da_DK) German (de) Greek (el_GR) Spanish (es_ES) French (fr_FR) Croatian (hr) Icelandic (is) Japanese (ja) Lithuanian (lt) Norwegian Bokmål (nb_NO) Dutch (nl_BE) Dutch (nl_NL) Polish (pl) Portuguese (pt_BR) Russian (ru_RU) Albanian (sq) Swedish (sv) Ukrainian (uk) Chinese (zh_CN) |
Type | Webmail |
License | 2015:
AGPL-3.0-or-later
[6] 2013: Dual-licensed [a] 2011: AGPL-3.0-or-later |
Website | Official website |
Mailpile is a free and open-source email client with the main focus of privacy and usability. It is a webmail client, albeit one run from the user's computer, as a downloaded program launched as a local website.
In the default setup of the program, the user is given a public and a private PGP key, for the purpose of (respectively) receiving encrypted email and then decrypting it. [7] Mailpile uses PGP and stores all locally generated files in encrypted form on-disk. The client takes an opportunistic approach to finding other users to encrypt to, those that support it, and integrates this in the process of sending email.
The program preloads a lot of email data into RAM to accelerate search results. While the search results remain really fast despite large amounts of emails, this gradually slows down the start-up time of the program as stored email data increases. This feature will likely be altered in the planned Mailpile version 2. [8]
Mailpile started out as a search engine in 2011. [1]
The project gained recognition following an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, raising $163,192 between August and September 2013. [9] [10] In the middle of the campaign, PayPal froze a large portion of the raised funds, and subsequently released them after Mailpile took the issue to the public on blogs and social media platforms including Twitter. [11] [12]
The first publicly tagged release 0.1.0 [13] from January 2014 included an original typeface (also by the name of "Mailpile"), UI feedback of encryption and signatures, custom search engine, integrated spam-filtering support, and localization to around 30 languages. [14]
July 2014 This release introduced storing logs encrypted, partial native IMAP support, and the spam filtering engine gained more ways to auto-classify e-mail. The graphical interface was revamped. A wizard was introduced to help users with account setup. [15]
Mailpile released a beta version in September 2014. [16] [17]
January 2015 1024 bit keys were no longer being generated, in favour of stronger, 4096 bit PGP keys. [18]
July 2015 [19]
A preliminary version of the 1.0 version was released on 13 August at the Dutch SHA2017 Hacker Camp, where the main developer gave a talk about the project. [20]
Original author(s) | Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson, Brennan Novak, Smári McCarthy [1] [2] |
---|---|
Developer(s) | The Mailpile Team |
Initial release | 13 September 2014[3] |
Stable release | 1.0.0rc6 (September 4, 2019[4]) [±] |
Repository | |
Written in | Python |
Operating system | Linux, macOS, Windows |
Platform | Web platform |
Available in | More than 14 languages [5] Arabic (ar) Danish (da_DK) German (de) Greek (el_GR) Spanish (es_ES) French (fr_FR) Croatian (hr) Icelandic (is) Japanese (ja) Lithuanian (lt) Norwegian Bokmål (nb_NO) Dutch (nl_BE) Dutch (nl_NL) Polish (pl) Portuguese (pt_BR) Russian (ru_RU) Albanian (sq) Swedish (sv) Ukrainian (uk) Chinese (zh_CN) |
Type | Webmail |
License | 2015:
AGPL-3.0-or-later
[6] 2013: Dual-licensed [a] 2011: AGPL-3.0-or-later |
Website | Official website |
Mailpile is a free and open-source email client with the main focus of privacy and usability. It is a webmail client, albeit one run from the user's computer, as a downloaded program launched as a local website.
In the default setup of the program, the user is given a public and a private PGP key, for the purpose of (respectively) receiving encrypted email and then decrypting it. [7] Mailpile uses PGP and stores all locally generated files in encrypted form on-disk. The client takes an opportunistic approach to finding other users to encrypt to, those that support it, and integrates this in the process of sending email.
The program preloads a lot of email data into RAM to accelerate search results. While the search results remain really fast despite large amounts of emails, this gradually slows down the start-up time of the program as stored email data increases. This feature will likely be altered in the planned Mailpile version 2. [8]
Mailpile started out as a search engine in 2011. [1]
The project gained recognition following an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, raising $163,192 between August and September 2013. [9] [10] In the middle of the campaign, PayPal froze a large portion of the raised funds, and subsequently released them after Mailpile took the issue to the public on blogs and social media platforms including Twitter. [11] [12]
The first publicly tagged release 0.1.0 [13] from January 2014 included an original typeface (also by the name of "Mailpile"), UI feedback of encryption and signatures, custom search engine, integrated spam-filtering support, and localization to around 30 languages. [14]
July 2014 This release introduced storing logs encrypted, partial native IMAP support, and the spam filtering engine gained more ways to auto-classify e-mail. The graphical interface was revamped. A wizard was introduced to help users with account setup. [15]
Mailpile released a beta version in September 2014. [16] [17]
January 2015 1024 bit keys were no longer being generated, in favour of stronger, 4096 bit PGP keys. [18]
July 2015 [19]
A preliminary version of the 1.0 version was released on 13 August at the Dutch SHA2017 Hacker Camp, where the main developer gave a talk about the project. [20]