What this is
A native Linux desktop email client that connects straight to your IMAP/SMTP mail servers with no cloud relay, middleman account or telemetry, as an alternative to Thunderbird or Evolution.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- A native Linux desktop email client that connects directly to your mail servers over IMAP and SMTP, storing everything locally in a SQLite database and syncing credentials through the OS keyring so it works fully offline.
- What's different
- No cloud relay, middleman account, or telemetry — mail stays on your own machine, unlike hosted alternatives.
- Pricing
- Free for one account with full functionality; a one-time $10 unlock removes the account cap.
- Best for
- Linux desktop users looking for a native alternative to Thunderbird, Evolution, Geary or Mailspring.
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 18 days
- Last checked
- 1h ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
Security. Launched 18d ago on PeerPush, where it placed #552. Today, it's been quiet for 15 days and the price has started to bleed.
Already bleeding a little every day, and it accelerates the longer it stays quiet.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It placed #552 on PeerPush with 7 votes.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
En eski 4 hareket bu listede yok — toplam 16 olay var. 1 quiet day in between are left out — nothing happened on them. A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
No names, on purpose — a call is worth what it turns out to be worth, not who made it.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
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: melia@buxjr.com.
Where it launched
1 platform| Platform | Votes | Counts toward price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| PeerPush | 7 | sets the price | ↗ |
The board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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