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Sobamail is an email solution with an application platform built on top. It is standards-compliant (SMTP, IMAP, POP3, and webmail), and its native desktop client can also run small apps whose data is stored inside your mailbox, alongside your email.
Standards-compliant email hosting with SMTP, IMAP, POP3 and webmail; a native desktop client for Windows and macOS; attachments up to 1 GB; and the app platform, whose Calendar and Contacts apps are open source. Apps run on your own machine, keep working without internet and catch up once you reconnect.
Yes. Sobamail runs on a proven open-source email stack and supports SMTP, IMAP, POP3, and webmail, so it works as a normal email account with any standard client. The application platform layers on top: its real-time app sync uses a proprietary, email-compatible protocol, but your email itself is just email.
App data is stored and kept up to date inside a series of email messages, held in special folders in your mailbox. So everything an app needs lives right alongside your email archive, under the one account you already have.
No. A Sobamail app is a small JavaScript backend plus a regular web page. The runtime handles storage and sync for you, and your mailbox is the database.
Yes. Apps run on your own machine inside the desktop client, so everything you do is saved on your device right away and synced quietly in the background once a connection is available. A slow or missing connection leaves your work untouched.
Each change an app makes is recorded and sent to your other devices and to your collaborators through the Sobamail cloud. Every copy replays the same changes with the same, frozen version of the app, so all of them end up with identical data. Where data leaves the platform, it travels as standard email: a machine-readable attachment with a header that points to it.
Yes. An app instance can be private to you or shared with other Sobamail users, so a group can work on the same instance of, for example, a shared to-do list. Each person keeps a copy in their own mailbox, and the copies stay in sync.
You can exchange attachments up to 1 GB in size. The files themselves live in your mailbox, at full size.
Sobamail's native desktop client runs on Windows and macOS. Linux is on the roadmap. There is also a webmail interface for accessing your mailbox from a browser.
Your mailbox and its app instances are private to you by default. Data is only shared when you explicitly create a shared instance with other users.
Yes. It's a standard mailbox underneath, so you can export your mail and app data with standard email tools and move to another host whenever you choose.
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