# mikel/mail

A Really Ruby Mail Library

Repository: https://github.com/mikel/mail
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mail
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-07-01T06:19:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 81/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 90, release rhythm 59, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6493, "days_push": 63, "days_rel": 63, "gap_med": 251, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3671, forks 935 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:13.533159+00:00)

## What it is
Mail is a pure Ruby library for generating, parsing, and sending/receiving email messages in a simple, Ruby-esque way. It proxies network actions to Net::SMTP and Net::POP3 and handles modern text encodings cleanly.

## Use cases
- parse email messages in ruby
- send email from a ruby app
- generate MIME multipart emails
- extract attachments from .eml files
- handle email encodings and headers
- build an email processing pipeline

## When to choose
- you need a mature, pure-Ruby email library with broad Ruby version support
- you want one library covering email generation, parsing, and sending
- you need fine-grained access to parsed message internals

## When to avoid
- you need a full mail server or mailbox management solution
- you want high-level templated mailers (use Action Mailer on top of this)
- you are not working in Ruby

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: email, parser, serialization
- domain: email, developer-tools, backend
- platform: ruby, jvm, cross-platform
- tags: smtp, mime, email-parsing, email-sending, net-smtp

## Member repositories
- mikel/mail (main) score 81

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:13.533159+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:31:19.037558+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mikel/mail (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:13.533159+00:00, sha 9c32905ef84d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.