Mailpile
{{Infobox software
| name = Mailpile
| logo = Mailpile_Vertical_Logo.svg
| logo_size = 180px
| screenshot =
| caption = Screenshot of the Mailpile's inbox
| collapsible =
| author = Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson, Brennan Novak, Smári McCarthy{{cite magazine | url=https://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/mailpile/ | title=Open Sourcers Pitch Secure Email in Dark Age of PRISM | magazine=Wired | date=August 26, 2013 | accessdate=March 8, 2014 | author=Finley, Klint}}{{cite web|url=http://mailpile.is |title=Mailpile.is |publisher=Mailpile Team |accessdate=2014-02-21}}
| developer = The Mailpile Team
| released = {{Start date and age|df=yes|2014|09|13}}{{cite web|url=https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2014-09-13_Mailpile_Beta_Release.html |website=Mailpile Blog |title=One Year Later: Mailpile Beta |accessdate=29 September 2014|date=13 September 2014 |author=Mailpile Team}}
| latest preview version =
| latest preview date =
| programming language = Python
| operating system = Linux, macOS, Windows
| platform = Web platform
| size =
| language = More than 14 languages{{cite web|url=https://www.mailpile.is/demos/ |title=Mailpile translation statistics |publisher=mailpile.is |date=1 September 2014 |accessdate=2014-09-13}}
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)
| genre = Webmail
| license = 2015: AGPL-3.0-or-later{{cite web |title=Licensing AGPLv3 |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/blob/master/COPYING.md |accessdate=8 September 2015}}
2013: Dual-licensed{{efn|AGPL-3.0-or-later or Apache-2.0+}}
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.
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.{{cite web|last1=Finley|first1=Klint|title=The Open Source Tool That Lets You Send Encrypted Emails to Anyone|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/09/oxguard/|website=Wired|accessdate=29 September 2014|date=3 September 2014}} 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.[https://community.mailpile.is/t/a-very-uninformative-progress-update-mailpile-2/785/7 A very uninformative progress update: Mailpile 2?]
History
Mailpile started out as a search engine in 2011.[https://media.ccc.de/v/SHA2017-101-mailpile/oembed]
Crowdfunding
The project gained recognition following an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, raising $163,192 between August and September 2013.{{cite web|last1=Lomas|first1=Natasha|title=Mailpile Is A Pro-Privacy, Open Source Webmail Project That's Raised ~$100,000 On Indiegogo|url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/mailpile/|website=TechCrunch|accessdate=29 September 2014|date=20 August 2013}}{{cite web|title=Mailpile - taking e-mail back|url=https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mailpile-taking-e-mail-back|website=IndieGoGo|accessdate=29 September 2014}} 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.{{cite web|last1=Hutchinson|first1=Lee|date=5 September 2013|accessdate=29 September 2014|website=ArsTechnica|url=https://arstechnica.com/business/2013/09/paypal-freezes-45000-of-mailpiles-crowdfunded-dollars/ |title=PayPal freezes $45,000 of Mailpile's crowdfunded dollars}}{{cite web|last1=Masnick|first1=Mike|date=5 September 2013|accessdate=29 September 2014|website=TechDirt|url=http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130905/08233824411/insanity-paypal-freezes-mailpiles-account-demands-excessive-info-to-get-access.shtml |title=Insanity: PayPal Freezes Mailpile's Account, Demands Excessive Info To Get Access }}
= Releases =
== Alpha ==
The first publicly tagged release 0.1.0[https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/wiki/Release-Notes-201401-Alpha Release Notes 201401 Alpha], GitHub, 1 February 2014 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2014-01-31_Alpha_Release_Shipping_Bits_and_Atoms.html |title=Alpha Release: Shipping Bits and Atoms |date=1 February 2014 |accessdate=21 February 2014 |author=Mailpile Team |website=Mailpile Blog}}
== 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.[https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/wiki/Release-Notes-201406-Alpha-II Release Notes 201406 Alpha II], GitHub, 3 July 2014
== Beta ==
Mailpile released a beta version in September 2014.[https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/wiki/Release-Notes-201409-Beta Release Notes 201409 Beta], GitHub, 30 September 2014{{cite web|last1=Hutchinson|first1=Lee|title=Mailpile enters beta—It's like Gmail, but you run it on your own computer|url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/09/mailpile-enters-beta-its-like-gmail-but-you-run-it-on-your-own-computer/|website=Ars Technica|accessdate=29 September 2014|date=15 September 2014}}
== Beta II ==
January 2015
1024 bit keys were no longer being generated, in favour of stronger, 4096 bit PGP keys.[https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/wiki/Release-Notes-201501-Beta-II Release Notes 201501 Beta II], GitHub, 20 January 2015
== Beta III ==
== 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.Bjarni Rúnar: [https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2017-08-13_SHA2017.html Mailpile: Still Hacking Anyway], mailpile : blog, 13 August 2017
Notes
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References
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External links
- {{official website|https://www.mailpile.is/}}
{{E-mail clients}}
Category:Free software programmed in Python
Category:Software using the GNU Affero General Public License
Category:Software using the Apache license
Category:Email client software for Linux
Category:Windows email clients