Alternatives

Core alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Core

Chatmail Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop chatmail apps, bindings and bots 📧

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#1

Himalaya

Similarity 131Trust 92Excellent 100

CLI to manage emails

6.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushproductivity-automationRustEmail
$ npx skills add pimalaya/himalaya
#2

Deltachat Android

Similarity 130Trust 93Excellent 100

Decentralized private messenger with chat-shared tools and games for Android

1.7K starsJun 15, 2026 pushproductivity-automationJavaEmail
$ npx skills add deltachat/deltachat-android
#3

Deltachat Desktop

Similarity 130Trust 93Excellent 100

Decentralized private messenger with chat-shared tools and games for Desktop

1.5K starsJun 16, 2026 pushproductivity-automationTypeScriptEmail
$ npx skills add deltachat/deltachat-desktop
#4

Mailspring

Similarity 127Trust 98Excellent 100

:love_letter: A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.

18K starsJun 15, 2026 pushproductivity-automationJavaScriptEmail
$ npx skills add Foundry376/Mailspring
#5

MailKit

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

A cross-platform .NET library for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP.

6.8K starsJun 12, 2026 pushproductivity-automationC#Email
$ npx skills add jstedfast/MailKit
#6

Maddy

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

✉️ Composable all-in-one mail server.

6.0K starsMay 26, 2026 pushproductivity-automationGoEmail
$ npx skills add foxcpp/maddy
#7

Mailu

Similarity 124Trust 89Excellent 100

Insular email distribution - mail server as Docker images

7.3K starsMay 31, 2026 pushproductivity-automationPythonEmail
$ npx skills add Mailu/Mailu
#8

Notify

Similarity 124Trust 96Excellent 100

A dead simple Go library for sending notifications to various messaging services.

3.7K starsJun 15, 2026 pushproductivity-automationGoEmail
$ npx skills add nikoksr/notify
#9

Meli

Similarity 124Trust 87Excellent 87

terminal mail client, mirror of https://git.meli-email.org/meli/meli.git https://crates.io/crates/meli

868 starsJun 12, 2026 pushproductivity-automationRustEmail
$ npx skills add meli/meli
#10

Neomutt

Similarity 123Trust 91Excellent 100

✉️ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks -- IRC: #neomutt on irc.libera.chat

3.7K starsJun 15, 2026 pushproductivity-automationCEmail
$ npx skills add neomutt/neomutt
#11

Rust Imap

Similarity 123Trust 87Excellent 85

IMAP client library for Rust

575 starsJun 8, 2026 pushproductivity-automationRustEmail
$ npx skills add jonhoo/rust-imap
#12

Bichon

Similarity 122Trust 93Excellent 100

Bichon – A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI

1.8K starsJun 11, 2026 pushproductivity-automationTypeScriptEmail
$ npx skills add rustmailer/bichon
#13

Check If Email Exists

Similarity 122Trust 89Excellent 96

Check if an email address exists without sending any email, written in Rust. Comes with a ⚙️ HTTP backend.

8.8K starsMar 17, 2026 pushproductivity-automationRustEmail
$ npx skills add reacherhq/check-if-email-exists
#14

Email Oauth2 Proxy

Similarity 121Trust 91Excellent 97

An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that transparently adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for email clients that don't support this method. Keep legacy email clients working with Exchange Online, Gmail and other providers.

1.4K starsApr 21, 2026 pushproductivity-automationPythonEmail
$ npx skills add simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy
#15

Lettre

Similarity 121Trust 93Excellent 100

a mailer library for Rust

2.2K starsJun 12, 2026 pushproductivity-automationRustEmail
$ npx skills add lettre/lettre
#16

Core

Similarity 121Trust 89Excellent 97

Dovecot mail server

1.2K starsJun 12, 2026 pushproductivity-automationCEmail
$ npx skills add dovecot/core

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