Is this project still alive?

[appcoders]

I am a paying customer and wrote the support two weeks ago, but did not get any answer yet. The last PR merged was on 16th of August and this marks the last code change. Hundreds of issues which are only answered by the bot. This brings me to the conclusion that the project is abandoned.

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[CarlosRebolledo]

No veo señales de vida del proyecto, he preguntado por email y directamente a Ben sin obtener respuesta.

Es una falta de respeto enorme que si fuese el domicilio legal de la aplicación en Chile no cumpliría con las normas de Protección del Consumidor

Y Ben está más interesado en otros temas, entre ellos las política

[trylaarsdam]

I am a paying customer and wrote the support two weeks ago, but did not get any answer yet. The last PR merged was on 16th of August and this marks the last code change. Hundreds of issues which are only answered by the bot. This brings me to the conclusion that the project is abandoned.

Sadly it does seem like it has been abandoned - 1k open issues with little to no activity by the devs over the past few months. Hopefully Spark for windows comes out soon so I can use an email client with support.

[CarlosRebolledo]

@bengotow algo que comentar? 🧐

[Gilligan759]

Well that sucks. I just barely got the client and I'm amazed at how great it is.

I recently contacted support though with no response in about 7 days :/ I can't seem to connect any Microsoft 365 accounts for some reason.

[maneandrea]

If this project isn't actively maintained I'd have to switch to a new client. I like Mailspring but it's still too buggy to be left alone.

[eibrunorodrigues]

I Love Mailspring but I had to switch too because of the calendar that never was released. Then I find the repository of the project and sadly it seems that is abandoned.

[appcoders]

@eibrunorodrigues Where did you switch to?

[eibrunorodrigues]

@appcoders Evolution (not good enough but it does the job), but I have calendar integration and I can rsvp invites from Office 365.

[CarlosRebolledo]

Without a doubt, Mailspring is a good email client, but the lack of development, answers to queries and signs of life, have led me to use other options.

Among the other possible clients I mention the following:

1.- Newton: https://newtonhq.com/ 2.- Missive: https://missiveapp.com/ 3.- Polymail: https://polymail.io/ 4.- Spark: https://sparkmailapp.com/ (To be launched on Windows) 5.- Airmail: https://airmailapp.com/ (MAC only) 6.- Postbox: https://www.postbox-inc.com/ (PC only) 7.- EmClient: https://www.emclient.com/ (PC only) 8.- Tempo: https://www.yourtempo.co/ (Mac only) 9.- Superhuman: https://superhuman.com/ (U $ 30 per month and only Gmail) 10.- Spike: https://www.spikenow.com/ 11.- Twobird: https://www.twobird.com/ 12.- Hey: https://hey.com/ (U $ 99 per year) 13.- Front: https://frontapp.com/ 14.- Darwinmail: https://www.darwinmail.app/

A very interesting and good extension for Gmail is Simplify, which also has a new version in Beta that will be paid, but at a low and competitive price: https://simpl.fyi/

Greetings from my dear country Chile

[mschickervxob]

@CarlosRebolledo Thanks for the big list. @eibrunorodrigues Thanks, already using Evolution on Linux to get my iCloud calendars, but Evolution is not for macOS.

[CarlosRebolledo]

@bengotow

Ben, you know that I have consulted by all available means and months, weeks, days and hours have passed without any response from you.

Ben, you know that I have consulted by all available means and months, weeks, days and hours have passed without any response from you.

I would suggest that you inform those who follow the development of Mailspring in a transparent and truthful manner. With so many email clients and projects on the market it is understandable that financing Mailspring is not easy, but that does not justify its silence and absence.

I say goodbye in the hope that you will appear and that Mailspring is still alive and in development.

[maneandrea]

Without a doubt, Mailspring is a good email client, but the lack of development, answers to queries and signs of life, have led me to use other options.

Among the other possible clients I mention the following:

1.- Newton: https://newtonhq.com/ 2.- Missive: https://missiveapp.com/ 3.- Polymail: https://polymail.io/ 4.- Spark: https://sparkmailapp.com/ (To be launched on Windows) 5.- Airmail: https://airmailapp.com/ (MAC only) 6.- Postbox: https://www.postbox-inc.com/ (PC only) 7.- EmClient: https://www.emclient.com/ (PC only) 8.- Tempo: https://www.yourtempo.co/ (Mac only) 9.- Superhuman: https://superhuman.com/ (U $ 30 per month and only Gmail) 10.- Spike: https://www.spikenow.com/ 11.- Twobird: https://www.twobird.com/ 12.- Hey: https://hey.com/ (U $ 99 per year) 13.- Front: https://frontapp.com/ 14.- Darwinmail: https://www.darwinmail.app/

A very interesting and good extension for Gmail is Simplify, which also has a new version in Beta that will be paid, but at a low and competitive price: https://simpl.fyi/

Greetings from my dear country Chile

Correct me if I'm wrong but none of them seems to be an alternative to Mailspring. By that I mean that none of them is an open source, freemium, non-web-based, multiplatform, email client. All fail for one or more of those criteria.

[CarlosRebolledo]

You're right. None are open source and all require payment, except Twobird and Spike for limited use are free.

And Mailspring Pro (US $ 8 per month) is not free and it is not open source as read from the Mailspring page itself.

I would love to see Mailspring flying or at least with answers to problems and queries because, like you, I consider it to be a great email client but with a halt development for reasons that I do not know. I don't lose hope to see Ben giving news of updates, information and answers.

[Studentenfutter]

There seems to be a lot of development on this fork - anybody knows something about this?

[maneandrea]

For those who are still looking, bluemail seems like a good alternative.

[shinebayar-g]

For those who are still looking, bluemail seems like a good alternative.

Thanks for the suggestion buddy! I was pretty turned off with Mailspring's window bug. (Bug that I cannot move mailspring window around desktop)..

[robclancy]

My accounts all won't work and bug reports on here about not being able to connect. So might be dead for good now. I plan to migrate to the vivaldi browsers email client. https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-mail-technical-preview/

[WhyNotHugo]

Gee, this is sad. And just when it looked like we were close to having a good multiplaform email client.

Ultimately though, I think Mailspring lacked a solid financial model. For something with closed source components, that's a dealbreaker (since it's unlikely people would donate to a non-FLOSS initiative). The paid features include some highly unethical features, several of them probably illegal in the EU and other jurisdictions.

If anyone wants to work on a serious fork, I'd be happy to donate to a project that deals with re-implementing the closed source bits and finalise Linux support.

[3v1n0]

This are for sure moving in these two branches:

• https://github.com/agent8/Mailspring/commits/calendar-plugin
• https://github.com/agent8/Mailspring/commits/db-refactor

Not sure those are related with original authors though...

[CarlosRebolledo]

Muchas gracias, aunque la esperanza de ver alguna aparición de Ben es lo último que se pierde.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:13, Marco Trevisan notifications@github.com wrote:

This are for sure moving in these two branches:

• https://github.com/agent8/Mailspring/commits/calendar-plugin [https://github.com/agent8/Mailspring/commits/calendar-plugin]
• https://github.com/agent8/Mailspring/commits/db-refactor [https://github.com/agent8/Mailspring/commits/db-refactor]

Not sure those are related with original authors though...

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[duhd1993]

Without a doubt, Mailspring is a good email client, but the lack of development, answers to queries and signs of life, have led me to use other options.

Among the other possible clients I mention the following:

1.- Newton: https://newtonhq.com/ 2.- Missive: https://missiveapp.com/ 3.- Polymail: https://polymail.io/ 4.- Spark: https://sparkmailapp.com/ (To be launched on Windows) 5.- Airmail: https://airmailapp.com/ (MAC only) 6.- Postbox: https://www.postbox-inc.com/ (PC only) 7.- EmClient: https://www.emclient.com/ (PC only) 8.- Tempo: https://www.yourtempo.co/ (Mac only) 9.- Superhuman: https://superhuman.com/ (U $ 30 per month and only Gmail) 10.- Spike: https://www.spikenow.com/ 11.- Twobird: https://www.twobird.com/ 12.- Hey: https://hey.com/ (U $ 99 per year) 13.- Front: https://frontapp.com/ 14.- Darwinmail: https://www.darwinmail.app/

A very interesting and good extension for Gmail is Simplify, which also has a new version in Beta that will be paid, but at a low and competitive price: https://simpl.fyi/

Greetings from my dear country Chile

Does any of these support push notification without background process on Mac like paid account with Newton mail?

[Phylu]

For a comment on the issue from the Mailspring maintainer see: https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/2231#issuecomment-746742048

[annibale-x]

I am a paying customer since 16/2/2018. I did a subscription because of the banner "Calendar is launching later this year". Well.. after 2 yrs the banner is still there and the calendar support is still missing and I just downgraded my account.

Bye bye mailspring

[robclancy]

I wonder if translations will ever work again, the feature I installed for first. Vivaldi mail seems to be working well now anyway, and has a calendar.

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I am a paying customer since 16/2/2018. I did a subscription because of the banner "Calendar is launching later this year". Well.. after 2 yrs the banner is still there and the calendar support is still missing and I just downgraded my account.

Bye bye mailspring

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[CarlosRebolledo]

Hey!!!! Good news https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/2231#issuecomment-756499796

[wcasanova]

@CarlosRebolledo @maneandrea OpenSource, was missing from that list.

• Thunderbird - Multiplatform
• Kmail - Linux (KDE)
• Evolution - Linux (Gnome)
• claws-mail - something basic - windows, Linux.

It seems that there is already activity in this project.

[CodeMouse92]

Yes, this project is alive. 2020 brought a lot of things to a screeching halt, and Mailspring development was among them. However, things are moving again! We plan to have a new release this week.

We're also in the process of migrating to our new Discourse community for all bug reports, feature suggestions, and the like. That will also allow discussion, community-driven Q&A, and a central place for sharing themes and plugins.

Here's the announcement of the immediate plans.

One of the reasons Mailspring development slowed, and ultimately stopped for a period during 2020 was the sheer size of the GitHub Issue list. It's not actually as bad as "1.1K issues" might make it seem — there are quite a few duplicate issues, non-issue questions and discussions, "nice to have" feature suggestions, and the like. Yet the mass of notifications on GitHub would discourage anyone from wanting to work on the code. It creates the illusion of a never-ending mountain. My job here is to whittle this mountain down to the molehill it really is.

Please join the Discourse community, and stay tuned! Things are moving as we speak. The enthusiasm and contributions of the Mailspring user base is what makes this possible.

(I'm closing and locking this issue as part of the migration. Please continue discussion on the Discourse.)