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Pocket Mail

v0.1.2 · Self-hosted · MIT

All your email accounts, in one calm inbox.

Pocket Mail is a web mail client for the accounts you already have. Type your address and it finds the servers; Gmail and Outlook can sign in with Google or Microsoft. Conversations read like a chat, the inbox sorts itself into people, updates, newsletters and receipts, and your mail stays with your provider.

Get it on GitHubHow to run it
Pocket Mail on an iPhone: a unified inbox with a dinner invitation, a meeting invitation, a café receipt and parcel updatesPocket Mail on an iPhone: a unified inbox with a dinner invitation, a meeting invitation, a café receipt and parcel updates

Inbox

Conversations, not piles of replies.

A whole exchange opens as one conversation, with earlier messages folded away. Pocket AI can summarise a thread or suggest three short replies, and the inbox offers to catch you up on what came in.

The Pocket Mail inbox with a dinner conversation open and three suggested replies above itThe Pocket Mail inbox with a dinner conversation open and three suggested replies above it

Your apps

Invitations land in your calendar.

An invitation shows as a card with the date, place and organiser, what else is on that day, and a button that adds it to Pocket Calendar.

  • Save attachments to Pocket Documents, Files or Immich
  • Turn an email into a Pocket Tasks task or a Pocket Notes note
  • Record a receipt in Pocket Money, add a sender to Pocket Contacts
A meeting invitation on an iPhone with its date card, two other events that day and an Add to calendar buttonA meeting invitation on an iPhone with its date card, two other events that day and an Add to calendar button

Subscriptions

Leave the newsletters you never read.

Every newsletter and mailing list on one page, with how much each sends and how often you open it. Unsubscribe in one click, archive everything from a sender, or mute it.

  • One-click unsubscribe, or an unsubscribe email sent for you
  • Rules that file, mark, star or save attachments as mail arrives
  • Mark VIPs and mute noisy senders
The Subscriptions page listing newsletters with message counts, open rates and Unsubscribe buttonsThe Subscriptions page listing newsletters with message counts, open rates and Unsubscribe buttons

Writing

Reply without leaving the thread.

The reply opens beside the conversation with the right account, the recipient and the quoted message already filled in. Drafts save as you type.

  • Address suggestions from Pocket Contacts and people you write to
  • Signatures per account, templates, send later and undo send
  • A reminder when you mention an attachment but forgot it
A reply to the dinner invitation being written in the compose window, with the quoted message belowA reply to the dinner invitation being written in the compose window, with the quoted message below

And the rest of it

  • Search that finds it

    Words in subjects, names and text with accents ignored, plus from:, to:, has:attachment, is:unread, before:, newer_than:7d and filename:.

  • Safe reading

    Messages are cleaned before they are shown, tracking images and remote content stay blocked until you allow them, and risky attachments are only downloaded.

  • Snooze and pin

    Snooze a message until later today, tomorrow or next week, and pin the ones you need on top. New mail arrives live without the list jumping.

  • Everyone their own

    Each person has their own accounts, mail and settings, and admins see no one else's. Passwords and tokens are sealed with a key only your server has.

Install

One container, one volume.

Run the image, open it, create the first account and add your mail. Pocket Mail keeps a copy of the recent months for speed and search, and every change goes back to your mail server, so your phone sees the same thing. Back up the data folder, including secret.key.

On a Pocket Box it is already installed and linked to Pocket Core.

Every setting in the README →

docker run -d --name pocket-mail -p 8080:8080 -v ./data:/data \
  -e BASE_URL=https://mail.example.com -e SECURE_COOKIES=true \
  ghcr.io/abjelosevic88/pocket-homelab-email:latest

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