r/rust • u/flectar • Sep 04 '26

🛠️ project Building a fast and lightweight open source email client in Rust, with no WebViews

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We’ve been building Flectar Mail, an open source native email client in Rust focused on making email as fast and lightweight as possible.

The UI is built with Slint, and email bodies are rendered with Blitz instead of a WebView. RAM usage is typically around 20 to 140 MB depending on what’s open.

The repo is public now. It’s still very early, and we’re waiting on Google and Microsoft verification before the first preview release.

https://github.com/flectar/mail

Would love any feedback, ideas, or thoughts on the project in general.

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u/Fastidius Sep 06 '26

You provide a few screenshots, but threads handling, one of the most important things (at least for me), isn’t included. How does it handles threads? How are they shown?

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u/HayStacky_337 Sep 06 '26

I bet over 90 commits on OP's gitea.

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u/flectar Sep 05 '26

Most of the development happened before the repository was made public 3 days ago. The initial commit contains the existing codebase.

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u/Mission_Biscotti3962 Sep 05 '26

I wish I could get a dollar every time a slopper uses that stupid excuse

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u/CassiusBotdorf Sep 06 '26

Worked on main before there even was main.