Mailchain

Introduction

Mailchain enables blockchain-based email-like messaging with plain or rich text and attachment capabilities. Using blockchain protocols and decentralized storage, Mailchain delivers a simple, secure, messaging experience.

The majority of blockchain protocols provide no standard way to handle messaging. Some account holders have sent messages as an encrypted or unencrypted string included in transaction data. Some applications work around the problem by asking users to link another method of contact (e.g. email address, phone number etc.) to an application. This compromises anonymity by asking users to link or reveal an identity. It also increases exposure to security risks, and relies on additional centralized services.

Mailchain provides a solution to these problems and a generalized solution to email message on blockchain protocols.

Repo layout

This is the primary repo for the Mailchain development.

The primary Mailchain repositories to be aware of are:

• mailchain: Main Mailchain repo, API and CLI
• mailchain-web: Inbox web client, the repository for https://inbox.mailchain.xyz/
• docs.mailchain.xyz: Documentation hosted at https://docs.mailchain.xyz
• mailchain-specification: Original specification and design documents
• community: We are building a community.

Quickstart and documentation

You can run Mailchain on most operating systems in a matter of seconds. See the Mailchain Getting Started Guide for how.

For more comprehensive documentation, start with the Mailchain docs. (The doc source code is available in the docs repo.)

Working in this repo

We ❤️ pull requests! See CONTRIBUTING.md for info on contributing changes.

Get involved

• Join our community discussion on our Slack channel.
• Follow @mailchain_xyz on Twitter.
• Contact us via regular email.

Code of conduct

This project is for everyone. We ask that our users and contributors take a few minutes to review our code of conduct.

Development Guide

See development guide for information on getting started as a developer.

Security Review Status: pre-audit

The code in this repository has not been audited.

License

Copyright 2019, Finobo. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use these files except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.