#1146293 ITP: palmer-mail -- native email and calendar client for Linux

#1146293#5
Date:
2026-08-31 08:45:06 UTC
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* Package name    : palmer-mail
  Version         : 1.3.0
  Upstream author : Cevin Palmer <cevin@cevinpalmer.com>
* URL             : https://www.cevinpalmer.com/download/
* License         : GPL-3.0-or-later
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : native email and calendar client for Linux

Palmer Mail is a desktop email and calendar client for Linux, written in
Python with a Qt 6 interface. It supports Proton Mail through Proton's
own Bridge, generic IMAP/SMTP accounts, and Microsoft 365 via OAuth 2.0.

Three things distinguish it from the mail clients already in Debian:

 * Proton Mail is a first-class backend rather than a generic IMAP
   account. Palmer Mail understands Bridge's folder and label namespace
   directly, including where Proton's semantics differ from IMAP's.

 * Account configuration can be exported and re-imported as three CSV
   files -- accounts, rules and signatures -- which can be edited in a
   spreadsheet. No credential is ever written to a CSV, in any column.
   A user administering dozens of accounts can change a server setting
   across all of them in one column edit.

 * A Unified Inbox showing unread mail from every configured account in
   one list, with per-account actions.

The client enforces TLS certificate verification with no user-facing
override, blocks remote content in messages by default, and stores all
credentials in the system keyring. It contains no telemetry.

Palmer Mail is developed by one maintainer with one external tester who
administers over a hundred accounts, and whose requirements have driven
most of the multi-account work above.

I intend to maintain this package myself. I am not currently a Debian
Developer or Maintainer and will need a sponsor.

Thank you
Cevin Palmer

#1146293#12
Date:
2026-08-31 10:29:20 UTC
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Hi,

I can be mistaken, but this seems to be a slop at best.

I'm always interested in new email/calendar clients, and there are a few
issues here:

- No source available, although the claim is that it is open source

- No screenshots. Curious for for a PIM

- A curious website, talking about SAP first

- It says it's free, with advertisement, and payment to remove them. No
chance to include this in Debian I guess.