Clients

The clients

Each client is a JSON file in clients/: how to find its window, where its message list, reader and search field are, and what has to be set so it holds the whole mailbox. The harness measures every one of them with the same code. Alphabetical.

Airmail

closed source

Bloop

Status: Coordinates unchecked
Runs: 0
Maintained by: nobody yet

Apple Mail

closed source

Apple

Status: Ready to measure
Runs: 2
Maintained by: @wes

Canary Mail

closed source

Canary Mail

Status: Ready to measure
Runs: 2
Maintained by: @wes

Mailflare

closed source

Vendor unknown

Status: Needs a layout
Runs: 2
Maintained by: nobody yet

MailMate

closed source

Freron Software

Status: Ready to measure
Runs: 2
Maintained by: @wes

NeoMutt

open source

The NeoMutt Team

Status: Coordinates unchecked
Runs: 0
Maintained by: @wes

Spool

closed source

Joe Designs

Status: Ready to measure
Runs: 2
Maintained by: @wes (its developers)

Thunderbird

open source

MZLA Technologies

Status: Ready to measure
Runs: 2
Maintained by: @wes

Your client hereOne JSON file and a pull request. Mail clients on macOS that can be pointed at an IMAP server.

Not here, and why

A client can only be measured if it can be pointed at the benchmark’s own IMAP server — that is what puts every client on the same mailbox. Clients that only speak to a provider’s API, or sync through the vendor’s own servers, cannot be, so no like-for-like measurement of them exists. That is the finding, not an omission: Mimestream (Gmail API only) and Superhuman (Gmail and Outlook, through its own backend) are the best-known examples.