Mailpile, a more secure and private email client

[BoraMurdar]

Mailpile is an e-mail client!
Mailpile is a search engine and a personal webmail server.
Mailpile is an easy way to encrypt your e-mail.
Mailpile is software you run yourself, on your own computer.

Mailpile is an effort to reclaim private communication on the Internet. A project to rescue our personal lives from the proprietary cloud and prevent our conversations from being strip-mined for corporate profit and government surveillance. Mailpile is taking e-mail back.

Born out of a belief that everyone deserves privacy and respect, Mailpile aims to provide an answer to the question: "How can I protect my privacy online?"

Mailpile is a big job, but we are making steady progress. Please feel welcome to read about our work so far, browse our source code or check out our community. If you like what you see, maybe you can lend a hand!

Thanks and welcome,
- Bjarni & the team

Mailpile is a modern, fast email client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features. Mailpile runs on your desktop or laptop computer and you interact with it by using your web browser. Mailpile places great emphasis on providing a clean, elegant user interface and pleasant user experience. In particular, Mailpile aims to make it easy and convenient to receive and send PGP encrypted or signed e-mail. Mailpile also does not force you to change e-mail addresses, it works with the e-mail addresses you already have.

Mailpile will by default encrypt all configuration data, contacts and the search index. It may also encrypt downloaded e-mail, depending on user preferences. Encryption is either provided by the GnuPG program, or OpenSSL's AES support. Mailpile doesn't store your private key on a mail server. You install Mailpile on your own computer, which keeps your key nice, safe, and under your control.

Mailpile is designed to be fast and responsive, outperforming "the cloud" even on slow computers. And it works even when the Internet is down.

Download: Mailpile Beta 3 | 18.1 MB (Open Source)
Links: Mailpile Home Page | Other Operating Systems

Spoiler: More Screenshots

 

[frogboy]

I might give Mailpile a try, it looks good.

 

[Mustolaf]

How would this compare to something like Bitmessage

Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data.

or Whiteout Mail

 

[frogboy]

How would this compare to something like Bitmessage or Whiteout Mail?

Not sure as have not tried them.

 

[Mustolaf]

I think whiteout is similar to this unless Mailpile is not an end to end encryption, where the other person receiving the mail will be needing the client to decrypt the message(edited last post for demonstration).
Where Bitmessage is simply P2P