Mailody is an e-mail client

E-mail client

An email client, email reader, or more formally mail user agent , is a computer program used to manage a user's email.The term can refer to any system capable of accessing the user's email mailbox, regardless of it being a mail user agent, a relaying server, or a human typing on a terminal...

 for the KDE Platform

KDE Platform

KDE Platform is a set of frameworks by KDE that serve as technological foundation for all KDE applications. Ever since KDE’s brand repositioning the Platform is released as separate product in sync with KDE’s Plasma Workspaces as part of the KDE Software Compilation 4...

 by Tom Albers.

Mailody has been discontinued. Tom Albers deleted it in the spring of 2010.

Unlike a complete mail client like KMail, the current stable version only works with the IMAP protocol, and does not support POP3.

The next version of Mailody was to use Akonadi

Akonadi

Akonadi is a storage service for personal information management data and metadata named after the oracle goddess of justice in Ghana. It is one of the “pillars” behind the KDE SC 4 project, although it is designed to be used in any desktop environment...

 as backend. Akonadi can fetch mail messages from multiple sources (e.g. IMAP, POP3, Maildir

Maildir

The Maildir e-mail format is a common way of storing e-mail messages, where each message is kept in a separate file with a unique name, and each folder is a directory...

, Exchange) and also serves as a storage engine for these messages. Mailody’s current sqlite

SQLite

SQLite is an ACID-compliant embedded relational database management system contained in a relatively small C programming library. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain and implements most of the SQL standard...

database engine would have been dropped as a consequence.