Eppie, a new open-source cross-platform email client, on Snap Store🐧

Hey Linux users!

Good news: Eppie is now on Snap Store!

In case you aren’t yet introduced, Eppie is a new multiplatform email client. It works with all major email providers like Gmail or Microsoft Outlook, supports PGP encryption out of the box, and it is the only native desktop email client capable of authenticating at Proton Mail servers – the biggest title on privacy-first email market.

So currently Eppie is mostly a traditional email client with privacy features. But there's a twist.

The ultimate goal of this project is to build the next generation providerless p2p email, where addresses, accounts and data belong to users. It will be built a little but like torrent, or cryptocurrency network if you will: the data is broken to pieces and stored in the trustless permissionless p2p network, on users' devices. It’s encrypted with asymmetric cryptography, where public keys are the addresses, and private keys allow the user to exclusively own the data, without anyone being able to access it, not even us, the developers of Eppie.

There will be no servers, no intermediaries. Previously, we've wrote a lot about why we think this is the right way for email to evolve, as well as more technical description of how this decentralized system is supposed to work. Read this and this if you are interested.

A cornerstone of Eppie's architecture is interoperability. Not only does Eppie connect the decentralized world with the traditional email, it also adds Bitcoin and Ethereum networks to the mix. Our internal build already allows to write directly to Bitcoin address. In the future one will be able to attach transactions directly to email. Here is a more detailed explanation of the system.

This is an ambitious project. Eppie is still in the preview stage and many of the functionality is still far ahead. But soon, we are planning to make our Testnet public to test our decentralized address system. So go ahead and install Eppie from the Snap Store (more Linux packages, like AppImage and RPM are on the way).

And if you want to be among the first to try the decentralized functionality, subscribe to our waiting list at https://eppie.io. We'll send you an invite to closed test even before the public testing begins.