Nylas Mail is an open-source mail client built on the modern web with Electron, React, and Flux. It is designed to be extensible, so it's easy to create new experiences and workflows around email. Want to learn more? Check out the full documentation
You can download compiled versions of Nylas Mail for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (.deb) from https://nylas.com/download. You can also build and run Nylas Mail (Previously N1) on Fedora. On Arch Linux, you can install n1 or n1-git from the aur.
This is a fork from the project currently hosted at nylas/nylas-mail. A bunch of developers who really liked this open source project got upset on this issue thread and wondered if they could contribute to the project, as the main development team had stopped to look into issues and pull requests from the comunity.
Our main objective is to maintain this amazing project alive and actively accepting contributions from the comunity. We believe this is the true life behind any open source endevour.
We are still figuring out how to manage this fork, our relationship with the original repository maintainers, how to deploy and etc. We welcome contributions of all kinds as we try to get the house in order.
We will, naturally, honor the licenses as they were writen by Nylas on the original project.
Please, feel free to contact any of the developers or, preferably, use our Slack team linked above to look into the discussions.
We are still figuring out our deploy options for this fork.
Plugins lie at the heart of Nylas Mail and give it its powerful features. Building your own plugins allows you to integrate the app with other tools, experiment with new workflows, and more. Follow the Getting Started guide to write your first plugin in five minutes. To create your own theme, go to our Theme Starter guide.
If you would like to run the N1 source and contribute, check out our contributing guide.
The Nylas Mail user interface is styled using CSS, which means it's easy to modify and extend. Nylas Mail comes stock with a few beautiful themes, and there are many more which have been built by community developers
- Dark
- Darkside (designed by Jamie Wilson)
- Taiga (designed by Noah Buscher)
- Ubuntu (designed by Ahmed Elhanafy)
- Less Is More (designed by Alexander Adkins)
- Arc Dark
- Predawn
- ElementaryOS
- Ido—Polymail-inspired theme
- Solarized Dark
- Berend
- LevelUp
- Sunrise
- ToogaBooga
- Material
- Monokai
- Agapanthus—Inbox-inspired theme
- Stripe
- [Kleinstein] (https://github.com/diklein/Kleinstein)—Hide the account list sidebar
- BoraBora
- Honeyduke
- Snow
- Hull
- Express
- DarkSoda
- Bemind
- Dracula
- MouseEatsCat
- Sublime Dark
- Firefox
- Gmail
- Darkish
- Download and unzip the repo
- In Nylas Mail, select
Developer > Install a Package Manually...
- Navigate to where you downloaded the theme and select the root folder. The theme is copied into the
~/.nylas-mail
folder for your convinence - Select
Change Theme...
from the top level menu, and you'll see the newly installed theme. That's it!
Want to dive in more? Try creating your own theme!
We're working on building a plugin index that makes it super easy to add them to Nylas Mail. For now, check out the list below! (Feel free to submit a PR if you build a plugin and want it featured here.)
Great starting points for creating your own plugins!
- Translate—Works with 10 languages
- Quick Replies—Send emails faster with templates
- Emoji Keyboard—Insert emoji by typing a colon (:) followed by the name of an emoji symbol
- GitHub Sidebar Info
- View on GitHub
- Personal Level Indicators
- Phishing Detection
Note these are not tested or officially supported by Nylas, but we still think they are really cool! If you find bugs with them, please open GitHub issues on their individual project pages, not the Nylas Mail (N1) repo page. Thanks!
- Jiffy—Insert animated GIFs
- Weather
- Todoist
- Unsubscribe
- Squirt Speed Reader
- Website Launcher—Opens a URL in separate window
- In Development: Cypher (PGP Encryption)
- Avatars
- Events Calendar (WIP)
- Mail in Chat (WIP)
- Evernote
- Wunderlist
- Participants Display
- GitHub
When you install packages, they're moved to ~/.nylas-mail/packages, and Nylas Mail runs apm install on the command line to fetch dependencies listed in the package's package.json
You can configure Nylas Mail in a few ways—for instance, pointing it to your self-hosted instance of the sync engine or changing the interface zoom level. Learn more about how.
Have an idea for a package or a feature you'd love to see in Nylas Mail? Search for existing GitHub issues and join the conversation!
If you would like to contribute to the project, but aren't sure where to start, please take a look at the Guide.