#1152630 RFP: hylki -- fast, modern, powerful, and beautiful GNOME email client

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
Nicholas D Steeves
Date:
2026-10-30 19:25:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1152630#5
Date:
2026-10-30 19:22:21 UTC
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* Package name    : hylki
  Version         : 1.46.0
  Upstream Contact: https://github.com/hyprlab/hylki
* URL             : https://hylki.hyprlab.co/
* License         : AGPL-3.0
  Programming Lang: Rust
  Description     : fast, modern, powerful, and beautiful GNOME email client

Hylki is an email client for the GNOME Desktop.  It is performant and
modern.  It imports account from GNOME Online Accounts, integrates
with GNOME Contacts.  Sign in once, and Hylki is ready to go.  OAuth
is natively supported for Microsoft accounts with Gmail supported
through GNOME GOA.  It supports unified boxes (Inboxes, Starred, Sent,
Drafts, Archive, filtered folders, tags and snoozed each combine every
account into a single list.) and message threading (Conversations can
be grouped into threads for better readability. Threads display in the
message list and/or reading pane as collapsible cards).

One thing that surprised me is that it supports JMAP accounts (RFC
8620 and 8621).

It has a special "attachment gallery" mode that generates an
album-view of all all received photos (this is a particularly
user-friendly feature!), deferred sending (ie "send later").

Hylki has been translated by humans into English, French, German,
Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Russian and
Spanish.

It has an interesting manifesto that can be read here:
https://github.com/hyprlab/hylki/blob/main/docs/MANIFESTO.md

and it has better than average documentation:
https://github.com/hyprlab/hylki/blob/main/docs/DOCUMENTATION.md

It looks similar to the MacOS mail client (or Geary for that matter),
and my hope is that it's more stable than Geary.  The users I support
are unsatisfied with Geary ("buggy"), Evolution ("ugly and
complicated"), Thunderbird, and Claws, and notmuch frontends are too
difficult for them.

Regards,
Nicholas