Email Clients

Discussion

This is a page to illustrate the status quo of open source email clients on Haiku.

Haiku developers and contributors are encourage to add their thoughts here.

What we Currently have

Mail

Haiku's official email client that is integrated with the operating system.

Haiku provides an innovative Mail management system using the file system database-like features (queries) to efficiently manage the e-mails. While the technology for this is working well, the user interface is rather limited, making it difficult to use the feature up to its full potential.

Enhancements

(Note: the following list is the result of a dynamic query)

Ticket	Priority	Summary	Status
#18386	normal	HTML support in Mail	new
#17564	normal	Mail UI: show DKIM verifcation	new
#16912	normal	IMAP Client - limited to 2000 emails in the INBOX?	new
#9052	normal	Mail: Add options to set priority and request read receipts	new
#6065	normal	Creating people from within Mail should copy name as well as e-mail	new
#5141	normal	Generating queries for related mails in Mail	new
#5140	normal	Mail GUI enhancements	new
#4911	normal	Inserted signatures should replace, not add each other	new
#4851	normal	Remove use of attributes/queries for signature/status	new
#2906	normal	Mail should BRoster::AddToRecentDocuments() when moving to another email via up/down arrows	assigned

Issues

(Note: the following list is the result of a dynamic query)

Ticket	Priority	Summary	Status
#18208	normal	Mail app sometimes hangs for many seconds on launch	new
#17920	normal	[Mail] dropdown menu is cut off	new
#16906	normal	Mail composer and reading window slows down to a crawl with 1000+ people in people folder	new
#16801	normal	an "é" typed in an email i type with Bemail, ultimately show in Bemail as a "é"	new
#16002	normal	Mail: Untranslated strings	new
#14767	normal	Mail app briefly blocks window in some circumstances	assigned
#14739	normal	Mail won't be "Left as 'New'"	new
#12362	normal	[Mail] crashed on start	new
#9562	normal	[Mail] Spellcheck only works with English	new
#8948	normal	Mail program closes immediate after opening mail	new
#8550	normal	[Mail] Queries->Edit queries doesn't show alert anymore	new
#8026	normal	Mail showing an email as empty, which isn't	new
#7422	normal	Odd email status changes	new
#5819	normal	Inconsistency occurred in the undo/redo buffer.	assigned
#4973	normal	Zip attachment is renamed	new
#4910	normal	Undoing dropped text files	new
#4765	normal	Location of draft mails	assigned
#1431	normal	Mail codebase needs a cleanup to fix several issues	in-progress
#1326	normal	Undo/Redo menu items are not properly enabled/disabled in Mail app	assigned

Beam

A 3rd party email client that uses a "traditional" UI. It can be installed with HaikuDepot.

The code base can be found ​here on Github

Scooby

A 3rd party email client that is meant to provide advanced features. Has not been worked on for a considerable amount time.

The code base can be found ​here on Github

MailNews

A port of Thunderbird, a quite complete e-mail software suite. Shares some code with the Firefox 2 port. It can be installed with HaikuDepot.

Influence

• Balsa
• Claws Mail
• Apple Mail
• Mulberry
• Trojitá

Resources

​The New Gmail API