Simple Mail Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Simple Mail for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Thunderbird, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Simple Mail and 19 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Simple Mail are SeaMonkey, Evolution, Geary and Mutt.

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  1. Thunderbird icon
     2582 likes

    Cross-platform email client supporting multiple identities, chat, and strong filtering. Extend functionality with add-ons like RSS/Atom feed readers and PGP support.

    90 Thunderbird alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • AppImageHub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
     
  2. SeaMonkey icon
     246 likes

    Web-browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, IRC chat, and HTML editing in one application. Itis built on the open source Mozilla Gecko engine, the same code which underlies Thunderbird and is the base for the Firefox browser.

    188 SeaMonkey alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
     
  3. Evolution icon
     209 likes

    Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring, address book and task list functionality.

    70 Evolution alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • S/MIME
    • GNOME
    • OpenPGP
     
  4. Geary icon
     107 likes

    Geary is an email application built around conversations, for the GNOME 3 desktop.

    48 Geary alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Flatpak
    • Linux Mobile
     
  5. Mutt icon
     68 likes

    Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. Some of its features are: color support, message threading, MIME support (including RFC2047 support for encoded headers), PGP/MIME (RFC2015), various features to support mailing lists, including...

    52 Mutt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  6. Zimbra Desktop icon
     32 likes

    The free Zimbra Desktop client allows you to meld the online and offline worlds – storing and synching your email, calendar, contacts, files and documents in the cloud, yet having them locally accessible when on the road.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. KMail icon
     49 likes

    KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager of KDE. Kontact is a personal information manager and groupware software suite for KDE. It supports calendars, contacts, notes, to-do lists, news, and email.

    54 KMail alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. aerc icon
     9 likes

    aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. It's highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  9. Mail is designed to let you manage your email quickly and effortlessly. Its interface is based on conversations, so you can read an entire discussion without having to click from message to message.

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    • Linux
    • elementary OS
     
  10. LucaMail icon
     9 likes

    LucaMail is an open source, cross-platform email client. LucaMail is developed to provide cross-platform alternative to Email Clients that are really exists. LucaMail focuses on modern technologies as well as maintaining a user-friendly UI.

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Scribe Mail icon
     8 likes

    Scribe is a small portable email client with an intergrated contact database and calendar. It supports all the major internet mail protocols and uses international standards where possible. Scribe doesn't required installing or uninstalled and can be used from a removable...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
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