Developer(s) The Mailpile Team | Development status Active | |
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Original author(s) Initial release 13 September 2014; 2 years ago (2014-09-13) Preview release 0.5.2 / 10 August 2015; 18 months ago (2015-08-10) Repository github.com/mailpile/Mailpile | ||
Mailpile is a webmail client with encryption and privacy features built-in. Mailpile is free and open-source software.
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Features
Mailpile is an email client with a heavy focus on providing users with encryption and privacy features by default. Mailpile currently supports PGP encryption natively and stores all locally generated files in encrypted form on-disk. Its first publicly tagged release was 0.1.0 in February 2014 and included an HTML5-based interface, an original typeface (also named "Mailpile"), UI feedback of encryption and signatures, a custom search engine, integrated SPAM-filtering support, and translations to around 30 languages. Mailpile released a beta version September 2014.
Crowdfunding
The project ran a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo from August to September 2013, and successfully raised $163,192. In the middle of the campaign PayPal froze a large portion of Mailpile's funds but was subsequently released after Mailpile took the issue public on blogs and social media platforms including Twitter.