Geary is an open source lightweight mail client for GNOME.
It offers a slim and economical user interface design to read and send email.
Geary is designed to let you read your email quickly and effortlessly. Geary’s interface is based on conversations, so you can easily read an entire discussion without having to click from message to message.
Key Features
- Modern and straightforward interface.
- Quick account setup.
- Supports Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com, and popular IMAP servers (Dovecot, Cyrus, Zimbra, etc).
- Mail organized by conversations.
- Full-featured HTML mail composer.
- Fast keyword search.
- Sparse SQLite database for full caching of email and FTS (full text search) indexing.
- Per-account searching.
- Auto-saving of draft emails.
- Desktop notification of new mail.
- Built-in security tool.
- Full-text search algorithm to improve the search experience.
- Support HTML signatures.
Website: wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary
Support: FAQ, GitLab Code Repository
Developer: Yorba Foundation
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Geary is written in Vala. Learn Vala with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| Graphical Email Clients | |
|---|---|
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| Kmail | Email component of Kontact |
| Sylpheed | Simple, lightweight client |
| Mailspring | New version of Nylas Mail |
| Claws Mail | Lightweight yet powerful and full-featured client |
| Evolution | Provides integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring functionality |
| Geary | Mail client for GNOME written in Vala |
| Astroid | Lightweight and fast Mail User Agent |
| Balsa | Email client for GNOME |
| Also known as Pantheon Mail | |
| Dodo | Based on the command line email swiss-army-knife notmuch |
| Aerion | Standalone lightweight e-mail client inspired by Geary |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
| Lightweight Email Clients | |
|---|---|
| Sylpheed | Client also based on the GTK+ GUI toolkit |
| Claws Mail | Powerful, user-friendly, fast and full-featured mail client based on GTK+ |
| Geary | Lightweight mail client for GNOME that is written in Vala |
| Astroid | Lightweight and fast Mail User Agent |
| Trojitá | Qt-based IMAP email client |
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