The Modern Email Client for Linux
Melia is a privacy-first desktop email client made for Linux, and only Linux. Where other clients phone home, inject ads, or let a tracking pixel quietly confirm you opened a message, Melia connects straight to your IMAP and SMTP servers, stores everything on your machine, and keeps your credentials locked in your OS keyring. No middleman, no cloud, no silent data collection. Tracking pixels stop dead before they load. A mismatched sender gets flagged on sight, and read receipts stay silent unless you say otherwise. Every message is checked against SPF, DKIM, and DMARC so you can tell what's genuine. Run all your accounts from one window, search across every one of them with fast full-text indexing, and keep reading and writing even when the network drops. And because Melia's network activity is visible right inside the app, the zero-telemetry claim is one you can confirm for yourself. Melia is free forever for a single account, or $10 once for unlimited accounts, with no subscription, no trial countdown, and no features held back. Honest, quiet email that stays on your computer, where it belongs.
A word on style.
Looks right at home in your palette.
Beyond light and dark, Melia ships with more than two dozen built-in themes: Catppuccin, Nord, Gruvbox, Dracula, Rosé Pine and more. Pick one and the whole client follows. Message list, reading pane and all.
01 / Active Protection
Your inbox has a bodyguard.
Melia delivers your mail, then stands guard over it.
- Tracking pixels neutralized before they can report you opened the message.
- Suspicious senders flagged the instant a display name doesn't match its real address.
- Disguised links exposed: hover any link to see where it really goes before you click.
- Read receipts silenced by default. Nobody confirms anything without your say-so.
- Every message authenticated against SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, so you can tell what's real.
02 / Radical Transparency
Watch Melia work.
You shouldn't have to take an email client's word for it. Melia shows you exactly what it's doing.
- Live Connection Monitor. Every outbound connection, in real time. See, on your own screen, that Melia only talks to your mail servers.
- Decoded message headers. Raw routing, authentication, and origin data, in plain language, one click away.
- Per-sender Trust Center. Decide what each contact is allowed to do in your inbox.
- GPG-signed releases. Every build verifiable end-to-end.
03 / Yours, Locally
Your email lives on your hardware.
No cloud, no middleman, no silent uploads. Just your machine, your mail server, and a line between them.
- Local SQLite store. Every message indexed on disk. Back it up, grep it, take it with you.
- OS keyring credentials. Never plaintext, never in a config file.
- Offline mode. Read, search, compose, and queue with the network unplugged.
- Zero telemetry. No usage data leaves your machine, anonymized or not, and there's no analytics setting to hunt for. Nothing is collected, so there's nothing to opt out of.
04 / Every Account, One Window
All your accounts. One quiet window.
Work Gmail, personal Fastmail, self-hosted domain, all under the same roof.
- 32 provider presets. Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, Fastmail, ProtonMail, iCloud, and more. Enter your email and you're in.
- Per-account inbox rules. Each account routes, files, and flags on its own terms.
- Unified full-text search. Find anything, across every account, instantly.
- Tidy & Trim. Auto-built contacts. Bulk cleanup. One-click unsubscribe.
As featured on
“Melia makes several claims and backs all of them up well. It is secure, transparent, easy on the eyes, and very simple to use.”
— Pulkit Chandak, It’s FOSS
Read what reviewers are sayingFree. No catches.
Use Melia with one email account, forever. Full functionality. No trial countdown. No crippled features.
Need multiple accounts? A one-time $10, and you're done.
That's less than a cocktail, and it lasts forever.
Work Gmail + personal Fastmail + self-hosted domain. All in one window, with per-account rules, signatures, and full-text search across everything. That's what $10 gets you.