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  • All other email clients are crap, but instead of helping them, more half-baked attempts to reinvent the bicycle.
    by aboardRat4
  • I think this looks good, but I'm not on a Mac anymore.

    For people that want a terminal client with tabs, integrated html viewer(including images), markdown compose, MCP, with unified inbox, I built notmutt.

    https://fishman.github.io/notmutt/

    by rjzzleep
  • Does anyone remember Sparrow?

    I like the idea of a native Linux email client. The UI looks pretty good too. It's really not hard to beat thunderbird.

    Calling it version 1.0 is bullshit though. It's only about a month old: https://github.com/c9dev/penguin-mail/graphs/contributors?al...

    A project with the complexity of an email client cannot be considered stable in a month. There are bugs that will only show up after a year. It has a calendar after all.

    by tlhunter
  • The industry standard wording is to suffix the headline with "written in Rust".

    Example:

    "Penguin Mail – open-source email client for Linux with AI, written in Rust".

    Its important, or people might miss the most interesting/important thing about your software.

    by wewewedxfgdf
  • Interesting that they call out Fastmail as a supported provider, but don't support JMAP. Seems like that would have been an easy stretch goal for Claude, and a good way to stand out amongst the competition.
    by mburns
  • Tested on fastmail, here’s few notes from 10min impression:

    - can’t choose a sender email?! This is major dealbreaker, if you have many aliases or domains.

    - no favico for emails, this is also a deal breaker for me, as I used it to quickly skim and find or check new emails.

    - folders orders is messed up, trying to arrange them made it worse

    - trying to color a folder and it says “server doesn’t support that”

    Also the UI needs more polishing overall.

    by tamimio
  • That's a very nice looking app - I like the look of it it gives me Mail.app vibes.

    A mail client is always a tough thing to get right so I'm glad you're working on one

    I love then idea that as the total cost (time/money/attention) of personalizing software continues to come down, more people will be able to encourage a diaspora of options, tailored to each niche.

    by slipheen
  • The thing with all these vibe-coded email clients is: how well do they sanitize the full-content view of HTML emails? Thunderbird and the like go to great lengths to make viewing those emails safe, e.g., by preventing inline JavaScript and all kinds of tracking techniques (pixels, CSS references, etc.). Without having checked, do these vibe-coded clients just render the HTML in a WebView, or do they have similar protections in place?
    by jttnr

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