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About Jaromail ​

Adapted from the Jaromail manual source. Copyleft © 2010–2023 Denis Roio. GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later; full permission notice.

jaromail(1) – self-sovereign e-mail management

Jaro Mail is an integrated suite of interoperable tools to manage e-mail communication in a private and efficient way, without relying too much on on-line services, in fact encouraging users to store their email locally.

Rather than reinventing the wheel, this suite reuses existing free and open source tools and protocols and is mainly targeted for GNU/Linux/BSD desktop usage.

This manual illustrates the usage of Jaro Mail. The newest version of this manual is made available on http://files.dyne.org/jaromail/jaromail-manual.pdf

Features ​

Jaromail terminal showing a threaded email inbox

  • Minimalistic and efficient interface with message threading
  • Targets intensive usage of e-mails and mailinglists
  • Stores e-mails locally in a reliable format (maildir)
  • Integrates whitelisting and blacklisting, local and remote
  • Can do search and backup by advanced expressions
  • Automatically generates filter rules (sieve)
  • Imports and exports VCard contacts to addressbook
  • Computes and shows statistics on mail traffic
  • Facilitates sending anonymous emails (Mixmaster)
  • Encrypted password storage using OS native keyrings
  • Advanced maildir tools (merge, backup, address extraction)
  • Defers connections for off-line operations
  • Checks SSL/TLS certificates when fetching and sending mails
  • Supports strong encryption messaging (GnuPG)
  • Multi platform: GNU/Linux/BSD, Apple/OSX
  • Old school, used by its author for the past 10 years

Vision ​

The internet offers plenty of free services, on the wave of the Web2.0 fuzz and the community boom, while all private informations are hosted on servers owned by global corporations and monopolies.

It is important to keep in mind that no-one else better than you can ensure the privacy of your personal data. Server hosted services and web integrated technologies gather all data into huge information pools that are made available to established economical and cultural regimes.

The vision behind this software is that of sharing a simple and consistent way to operate e-mail communication with tools that are available on most platforms and can be as well used remotely over a secure shell connection.

Jaro Mail aims to facilitate the task of downloading and storing e-mail archives off-line in a way that they can be still accessible in more than 10 years time and independently of any software. Nowadays many users have the habit of keeping all their e-mails on servers, accessing them through an often clumsy web interface, while downloading them can free space and improve their privacy.