Aerion Replaces Geary as Top Linux Email Client Over 2 GUI Problems

1 articles · Updated · ZDNet · May 27

Aerion became ZDNET's top Linux email client after Geary's interface repeatedly misbehaved—collapsing into a single-pane view on narrow tiling-window setups and sometimes failing to appear on Pop!_OS.
The switch was driven largely by Aerion's cleaner three-pane UI, which keeps multiple accounts manageable and adds an All Inboxes view plus a Focus Mode for single-message reading.
Aerion stays lightweight despite supporting Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, ProtonMail Bridge and standard IMAP/POP, along with basics such as rich-text compose, signatures, filtering, spam control and tracking-element removal.
Although still in pre-release, the open-source app was described as stable; it is Linux-first, sponsored by Hong Kong-based consultancy 3DF, and installs on Linux through Flathub via Flatpak.

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