Mailpile
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 | 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
Features
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]
History
Mailpile started out as a search engine in 2011.[1]
Crowdfunding
The project gained recognition following an
Releases
Alpha
The first publicly tagged release 0.1.0
Alpha II
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]
Beta
Mailpile released a beta version in September 2014.[16][17]
Beta II
January 2015 1024 bit keys were no longer being generated, in favour of stronger, 4096 bit PGP keys.[18]
Beta III
July 2015[19]
Release Candidate
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]
Notes
- ^ AGPL-3.0-or-later or Apache-2.0+
References
- ^ Finley, Klint (August 26, 2013). "Open Sourcers Pitch Secure Email in Dark Age of PRISM". Wired. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
- ^ "Mailpile.is". Mailpile Team. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
- ^ Mailpile Team (13 September 2014). "One Year Later: Mailpile Beta". Mailpile Blog. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ "Releases - mailpile/Mailpile". Retrieved 29 June 2020 – via GitHub.
- ^ "Mailpile translation statistics". mailpile.is. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-13.
- ^ "Licensing AGPLv3". GitHub. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
- Wired. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ A very uninformative progress update: Mailpile 2?
- ^ Lomas, Natasha (20 August 2013). "Mailpile Is A Pro-Privacy, Open Source Webmail Project That's Raised ~$100,000 On Indiegogo". TechCrunch. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- IndieGoGo. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ArsTechnica. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- TechDirt. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ Release Notes 201401 Alpha, GitHub, 1 February 2014
- ^ Mailpile Team (1 February 2014). "Alpha Release: Shipping Bits and Atoms". Mailpile Blog. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- ^ Release Notes 201406 Alpha II, GitHub, 3 July 2014
- ^ Release Notes 201409 Beta, GitHub, 30 September 2014
- ^ Hutchinson, Lee (15 September 2014). "Mailpile enters beta—It's like Gmail, but you run it on your own computer". Ars Technica. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ Release Notes 201501 Beta II, GitHub, 20 January 2015
- ^ Release Notes 201507 Beta III, GitHub, 2 May 2017
- ^ Bjarni Rúnar: Mailpile: Still Hacking Anyway, mailpile : blog, 13 August 2017