Alternatives

Himalaya alternatives for AI agents.

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

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CLI to manage emails

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#1

MailKit

Similarity 133Trust 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
#2

Meli

Similarity 131Trust 84Excellent 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
#3

Neomutt

Similarity 131Trust 89Excellent 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
#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

Maddy

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

✉️ Composable all-in-one mail server.

6.0K starsMay 26, 2026 pushproductivity-automationGoEmail
$ npx skills add foxcpp/maddy
#6

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
#7

Anonaddy

Similarity 124Trust 93Excellent 100

Anonymous email forwarding

4.7K starsMay 28, 2026 pushproductivity-automationPHPEmail
$ npx skills add anonaddy/anonaddy
#8

Imap Tools

Similarity 124Trust 84Strong 80

Work with email by IMAP

830 starsMay 13, 2026 pushproductivity-automationPythonEmail
$ npx skills add ikvk/imap_tools
#9

MimeKit

Similarity 123Trust 95Excellent 100

A .NET MIME creation and parser library with support for S/MIME, PGP, DKIM, TNEF and Unix mbox spools.

2.0K starsJun 15, 2026 pushproductivity-automationC#Email
$ npx skills add jstedfast/MimeKit
#10

Rust Imap

Similarity 122Trust 86Excellent 85

IMAP client library for Rust

575 starsJun 8, 2026 pushproductivity-automationRustEmail
$ npx skills add jonhoo/rust-imap
#11

Bichon

Similarity 122Trust 92Excellent 100

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

1.8K starsJun 11, 2026 pushproductivity-automationTypeScriptEmail
$ npx skills add rustmailer/bichon
#12

Core

Similarity 122Trust 84Strong 82

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

900 starsJun 16, 2026 pushproductivity-automationRustEmail
$ npx skills add chatmail/core
#13

Deltachat Desktop

Similarity 122Trust 92Excellent 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
#14

Socialscan

Similarity 122Trust 90Excellent 98

Python library for accurately querying username and email usage on online platforms

1.8K starsApr 27, 2026 pushproductivity-automationPythonEmail
$ npx skills add iojw/socialscan
#15

Check If Email Exists

Similarity 121Trust 87Excellent 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
#16

Email Oauth2 Proxy

Similarity 121Trust 89Excellent 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

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