MailJD — Keyboard-Driven Linux Mail Client

Features

⌨️

Keyboard-first — Nostalgy-style shortcuts

🧵

Threaded view — conversations grouped

🔍

Full-text search — FTS5 + multi-folder IMAP SEARCH

🏷️

Labels — colored IMAP keywords

🤖

Smart move — Bayesian (FolderPredictor) folder prediction

📑

Tabs — open multiple mails in tabs

⚡

IMAP NOTIFY — real-time badges for all folders

🔄

Auto-reconnect — exponential backoff

↩️

Undo — Ctrl+Z everything

📎

Inline PDF viewer — attachments open in-app

🌙

Themes — light, dark, and follow-system

🌍

i18n — English + German UI

🔔

Notifications — open / foreground-activate from click

📅

CalDAV — calendar events + tasks

🪶

Lightweight — native Qt6

📦

Easy install — AppImage / Gentoo

🧪

Test Suite — 221 unique tests, 91.7% line coverage

Keyboard Shortcuts

Navigation

j / k Next / Previous

o Open mail

b Switch folder

B Previous folder

g g / G First / Last

c Calendar

Actions

r Read / Unread

d Delete

a Archive

s Quick-move

x Mark junk

Compose

n New message

Ctrl+R Reply

Ctrl+⇧+R Reply all

Ctrl+⇧+F Forward

Labels & Search

1 – 5 Toggle label

f Search

/ Quick filter

? Show all shortcuts

Install

AppImage

Runs on any Linux — Download

chmod +x MailJD-*.AppImage
./MailJD-*.AppImage

tar.gz

Manual installation — Download

tar xzf MailJD-*.tar.gz
./MailJD-*/bin/mailjd

Gentoo

Via jd overlay

eselect repository add jd \
  git https://git.jdsoft.de/linux/jd.git
emerge mail-client/qmailjd