Butterfly
Simplifying email for the post-modernists
What is Butterfly?
Butterfly is a new email protocol that has been designed from
scratch to take modern standards into
account and to be much more simple. Firstly the protocol is
JSON-based and uses JSON for all encoding.
Secondly it had incorporated mailbox management and mail
transfer into one protocol, this, as compared
the separation of these two tasks into two protocols, IMAP/POP
and SMTP respectively.
With Butterfly you have a single binary that needs to
be run in order to run your own mail server. Not
only is the mail protocol JSON based but everything surrounding
administrating the system is! Mail is
stored on the VFS (file-system) as JSON and the server's
configuration file is also JSON-based!
Features
- Mailbox management
- Folder creation
- Folder deletion
- Folder listing
- Mail deletion
- Mail moving
- Mail transfer
- Local user-to-user transfer
- Remote user to remote user transfer
Server releases
The latest x86 release is v0.0.36
but you can find all builds here.Source code
You can find the source code hosted in the following places:
- GitHub
- WorcesterHub (CRXN)
- WorcesterHub
(Clearnet)
Clients
So far there are the following clients available:
- libutterfly - This is a D-based library for interacting with Butterfly mail servers
- skoenlapper