Why Melia

Email that answers to you.

A fast, beautiful desktop email client made for Linux, and only Linux. Your mail goes from your server to your screen with nothing in between: no ads, no cloud, no tracker learning when you opened it.

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$10: once, for unlimited accounts. One account is free forever. No subscription.
25: releases in the last 30 days. Fixes and features ship constantly. See what changed.
6: ways to install: AppImage, .deb, .rpm, Snap, Flatpak, and ARM64.

01 / Coming from webmail

Read your mail without being read.

In a browser tab, your inbox lives inside someone else's web app: their ads, their in-app analytics, their idea of what you should see first. Melia talks to the same mail servers directly, so none of that comes along.

Tracking pixels stripped before the message renders, so the sender never learns it was opened.
Read receipts suppressed by default. Nobody confirms anything without your say-so.
No ads, anywhere. Not in the sidebar, not between messages.
Every provider in one window: Gmail, Outlook, Fastmail and your own server, side by side.

See the full protection stack

Melia in light mode with a Hollow Field Goods lookbook open, its cream design shown as written — Drag the handle. The same email, light and dark, converted as you watch.

The same view in dark mode, with the lookbook converted to dark — Drag the handle. The same email, light and dark, converted as you watch.

02 / Coming from Thunderbird or Evolution

Same open standards. A client that finally looks the part.

Thunderbird and Evolution earned their place. Melia keeps what made them good, real IMAP and SMTP with your mail on your own disk, then adds what people kept asking for.

A modern interface with more than two dozen themes, and a dark mode that converts the email itself.
Protection on from the first launch. No add-ons, no settings to hunt for.
Its own SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks on every message, not just the server's say-so.
Lighter on your machine: idles around 250 MB of RAM.

See every feature

Melia's Connection Monitor listing each server Melia contacted, with protocol, port and a running log of recent activity — The Connection Monitor: Melia's own network activity, as it happens.

03 / Coming from a cloud-synced app

No cloud in the middle. Not even ours.

Apps that sync through their own servers keep a copy of your mail and the keys to your account. Melia has no servers to send them to.

No relay, no proxy, no copy. Melia connects straight to your mail provider.
Credentials stay in your OS keyring, never sent to us.
Works offline from a local database you can query, back up, or take with you.
Its network activity in plain sight in the built-in Connection Monitor.

Every connection, documented

In the box

Everything, on from the first launch.

04 / Protection by default

Tracking pixels stripped, read receipts suppressed, look-alike senders flagged, deceptive links revealed on hover.
05 / Proof of who sent it

Melia runs its own SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks, and tells you plainly when a sender is not who they claim.
06 / Encryption, built in

Reads OpenPGP and S/MIME mail, shows whether a signature holds, and signs what you send. Your keys never leave your computer.
07 / Every inbox, one window

All Inboxes, saved Views, and searches that span every account at once, with and, or, and not when one keyword isn't enough.
08 / Made to be looked at

More than two dozen themes, newsletters converted for dark mode, and mail displayed as written in 34 writing systems.
09 / Yours, even offline

Read, search and write on a plane. Everything is in a local database, and it all syncs when you land.