Hello everyone!
I’m happy to announce that Mailpile is receiving a grant from NLnet to help bring moggie to a first public beta release. Read about the grant and the plan here: A Mail Client in Six Steps
For those of you who prefer a less chatty Github-issue style overview, that exists too: https://github.com/mailpile/moggie/issues/7
Well, part 1 of the series is public! https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2023-07-13_A_Read_Only_Mail_Client.html
I wonder if anyone will read the whole thing? 
What’s the status of the project?
This is the latest update I find, but it is a year old and talked about a 6 month grant.
Did the grant fell through? Is moggie anywhere close to being usable?
Thanks for all your work on this. I really like this project.
Sorry about the crazy late reply, and apologies for the silence over the last few months.
To sum up - I had a lot going on in my personal life; moved to the UK, took work to get a visa, welcomed a baby into my life, moved back to Iceland… I’ve kept working on moggie the whole time, but it became very much a part time hobby thing, and I abandoned all attempts to stick with the roadmap I’d laid out. I just didn’t have the bandwidth.
I am gradually re-emerging from this state and once I’ve spent some time figuring out where the project really is relative to what I’d announced, I’ll post some updates.
Quick update for anyone else looking around mailpile does still work great! Only unusual thing I noticed is that the login is VERY slow after it’s parsed over 100k emails, but works like charm.
Oof. No…
Nobody should start using the old Mailpile code at this stage. It has been unmaintained for many years now, is not getting security updates or any improvements. Investing in it (as a user) at this stage would be very unwise.
If someone wants to step up as a maintainer or restart work on it, that is always possible (it is open source after all), but probably worth keeping in mind that the original developer (myself) decided to abandon the code for some quite good reasons. 