Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI(penguin-mail.com) |
Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI(penguin-mail.com) |
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.
This is one of those types of app that really benefits from a proper menubar with several top-level menus so the user isn’t stuck spelunking submenu tunnels.
- 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.
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.
2. Seems odd to assume instability by default without evidence.
If so, I'd love to hear a writeup!
Can this be compiled for other operating systems than Linux?
It's missing some features that are dealbreakers for me, but I haven't found anything unstable yet.