Melia

Melia is a privacy-first desktop email client built exclusively for Linux. If you are looking for a modern, native email client for the Linux desktop, an alternative to Thunderbird, Evolution, Geary, or Mailspring, Melia is a lightweight IMAP and SMTP client that keeps all of your mail on your own machine. Melia connects directly to your mail servers over IMAP and SMTP. There is no cloud relay, no middleman account to sign up for, and no telemetry of any kind. Your credentials are stored in the OS keyring (libsecret), and every message syncs to a local SQLite database, so the app is fully offline-first: you can read, search, and queue replies with no connection, and everything opens at local-disk speed. What Melia is: - A native Linux desktop email application, not a web page in a wrapper. - Free for one account with full functionality. A one-time $10 unlock removes the account cap (up to 5 machines). No subscription, no trial, no recurring charges. - Proprietary and closed-source, with an EULA pledge to release the source under a permissive license if the project is ever abandoned. Platform and requirements: - Linux only, x86_64 / amd64, glibc 2.31 or newer. - 4 GB RAM recommended, 2 GB minimum. The app idles around 250 MB of RAM. - Distributed as AppImage, .deb, Snap (snap install melia), and Flatpak. - Built on Electron, React, and TypeScript, with a local SQLite database using FTS5 full-text search. Key features: - Direct IMAP and SMTP for Gmail, Google Workspace, Outlook.com, Office 365, Yahoo, iCloud, Fastmail, ProtonMail Bridge, Zoho, and any standard mail server. OAuth2 for Microsoft accounts, app passwords for Google. - One-click setup for 37 email providers with presets that auto-fill server settings. - Unlimited accounts in one clean window, each in its own folder tree. No forced merged inbox. - Offline-first local storage: read, search, and compose without a connection, with an outbox that auto-retries and a deferred sync queue that replays flag, delete, and move actions on reconnect. - Full-text search across every account and folder, private and instant, powered by SQLite FTS5. - Per-message dark mode rendering with contrast and padding correction, so HTML emails look the way they should in both light and dark themes. - Privacy and inbox protection on by default: tracking pixels neutralized, remote images blocked, read receipts never auto-sent, one-click unsubscribe. - Client-side cryptographic SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and ARC verification, with brand-impersonation and suspicious-sender detection and a decoded header viewer. - On-device link-safety preview that shows where a link really goes before you click, flagging text and destination mismatches, punycode and homograph domains, and redirect wrappers, without ever contacting the link. - Rich-text compose with inline images, drag-and-drop attachments, per-account signatures, contact autocomplete, draft auto-save, and undo send. - Per-account inbox rules with an IF and THEN builder for filing, spam routing, and loop-safe forwarding. - Tidy to merge duplicate folders and Trim to bulk-delete old mail. - Built-in contacts and address book with VIP tagging, auto-populated from your sent mail. - Light, Dark, and Auto modes plus more than 25 themes, including Catppuccin, Nord, Gruvbox, Dracula, Tokyo Night, Rose Pine, Everforest, Solarized, Kanagawa, and a custom accent color. - Native desktop integration: system keyring, real keyboard shortcuts, desktop notifications, dock unread badge, EML file viewer, print, and config import and export. Who it is for: Linux desktop users who want a fast, modern, good-looking email client that respects their privacy and their data. Melia suits people leaving webmail who want their mail stored locally, people who want a lighter and more modern option than the traditional Linux clients, and anyone who wants to pay once instead of subscribing. Why people choose Melia: - Your mail lives on your machine, not in someone's cloud. - Zero telemetry, verifiable by watching the connections the app makes. - Pay once or not at all. Ten dollars, one time, for unlimited accounts. - A modern interface built for Linux from the ground up, with privacy, speed, and rendering quality as core priorities. Category: Desktop email client for Linux. Keywords: Linux email client, Linux desktop email, IMAP client, SMTP client, offline email, privacy email client, native Linux app, multi-account email, dark mode email, anti-tracking, self-hosted mail, Thunderbird alternative, Mailspring alternative. Website: melia.buxjr.com. Publisher: BUXjr. Contact: [email protected].