UnInbox

The Open Source Communication Infrastructure

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🚧 Current Status

UnInbox is Live! We are working on more features and infrastructure to make UnInbox better. Please join our Discord community to get the latest updates and to provide feedback. Join at app.uninbox.com.

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About

Our core infrastructure is designed from the ground up for effective communication between you and the rest of the world.

The webapp provides a flavoured experience of what email communication would be if it was re-imagined for how we communicate today.

Features like "team collaboration", "conversation notes" and "new sender screener" are native, making communication easier and more intuitive.

Built to work with your current email infrastructure or replace it entirely.

We're not here to kill email, we're bringing it up to date, killing inboxes along the way.

UnInbox isn't another email service, its a better way to do email.

And email is just the start

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Why

The first email was sent almost 45 years ago (1979). Before the invention of the mobile telephone.

Communication workflows have changed dramatically since then, but the email experience has remained the same.

The volume of emails we receive has exploded in recent years, with more noise than actual conversations.

Email is not built for today's noisy, remote, highly collaborative world.

But email is universal, so we can't force the world to replace it.

Instead, we're detaching from its legacy underpinnings, to build something modern on top.

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Tech Stack

UnInbox is built with the following epic technologies & tools:

• Next JS React based FrontEnd & Backend + modules
• Hono Public API + Misc tooling
• Tailwind CSS Engine
• tRPC Typesafe APIs
• DrizzleORM ORM + MySQL

Running Locally

To get a local copy up and running, follow these simple steps.

Prerequisites

Here is what you need to be able to run UnInbox locally.

• Node.js (Version: >=20.x)
• NVM (Node Version Manager) (see https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm)
• Docker
• pnpm (Version >= 9.x) (see https://pnpm.io/installation)

Setup

1. Clone the repo into a public GitHub repository (or fork https://github.com/un/inbox/fork). If you plan to distribute the code, keep the source code public to comply with AGPLv3. To clone in a private repository, contact us to acquire a commercial license

   git clone https://github.com/un/inbox.git

   If you are on Windows, run the following command on gitbash with admin privileges:
   > git clone -c core.symlinks=true https://github.com/un/inbox.git
   See docs for more details.

2. Go to the project folder

   cd UnInbox

3. Check and install the correct node/pnpm versions

   nvm install

4. Install packages with pnpm

   pnpm i

5. Set up your .env.local file

   • Duplicate .env.local.example to .env.local. This file is already pre-configured for use with the local docker containers

     mac

      cp .env.local.example .env.local

     windows

      copy .env.local.example .env.local

6. Start the docker containers

   pnpm run docker:up

7. Sync the schema with the database:

   pnpm run db:push

8. In another terminal window, start the app and all services

   pnpm run dev

Self Hosting

Self hosting will be possible, but requires some additional manual configuration for email. Please check out Discord community for information on how to self-host UnInbox in production