Postsack

Provides a high level visual overview of swaths of email

Performance

It currently parses 632383 emails in ~160 seconds, so roughly 4.000 emails per second. This excludes (for now) attachments. Update: It currently parses 632115 emails in ~56 seconds, so roughly 11.000 emails per second. This excludes (for now) attachments.

Open Issues

• rename repository to postsack
• add support for message filters (read etc), the UI is already there, the filters are not applied yet
  • the filters for tags should allow selecting from the existing tags?
• mbox is multiple files, e.g. inbox.mbox, sent.mbox. support this
• support mbox
• support apple mail
• try re-opening a database...
• save config into sqlite
• store last opened sqlite file
• check if we get any values for the to_sender to_domain fields etc (only to_group seemingly has no data for my mails)
• update to egui 15
• add more tests
• build static linux binary via docker
• try to build a static windows binary
• update metadata in Cargo.toml
• add app platform icons
• for many mails, the segmentations don't work correctly due to async issues

Linux Issues

• broken background color
• can't switch import format
• mbox support for selecting a folder of mbox files (inbox etc)
• weird sizing behaviour on startup
• background color in startup screen is transparent
• current tests fail under linux

Future Options

• Add additional UI based on Druid, Iced or Native Cocoa
• maybe add blocking versions of the calls, too (in model)
• abstract over Fields and backend to have a generic way to display groupable information
• apply the window changes (no status etc) on startup, not just when loading main
• split up into multiple crates
• action when clicking an email?
• support light theme
• allow diving into splits/segments until there're no gropu bys anymore, but the last split can be opened full (to see the mails)
• remove unneeded dependencies and features
• add support for generating mail deletion rules based on the visible mails
• support more mail formats:
  • outlook
  • notmuch
  • maildir

Development

Generate a macOS bundle via Cargo Bundle:

cargo bundle --bin gui

Linux Dependencies

In order to build (and or run) on Linux, the following dependencies are needed:

Fedora

# Development
sudo dnf install @development-tools glib cairo-devel pango-devel gdk-pixbux2-devel atk-devel gtk3 gtk3-devel libsqlite3x-devel

Ubuntu (currently untested)

# Development
sudo apt-get install libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libspeechd-dev libxkbcommon-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev