Sylpheed Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Sylpheed 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 Sylpheed and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Sylpheed are Betterbird, Evolution, Claws Mail and Geary.

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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. Betterbird icon
     83 likes

    Betterbird, a soft fork of Mozilla Thunderbird, improves user experience with advanced features, bug fixes, security patches, and multi-row descriptions similar to Outlook. Compatible with multiple platforms and can be used alongside Thunderbird, sharing the same profile.

    32 Betterbird alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Chocolatey
     
  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. Claws Mail icon
     104 likes

    Email and news client on GTK+ foundation featuring quick performance, extensible plugins, secure protocols, advanced filtering, strong folder and contact management, lightweight design, powerful search, customizable interface, multi-language support, and encryption.

    64 Claws Mail alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. 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
     
  6. 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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  7. Aerion icon
     6 likes

    Modern open-source email client supporting unified inbox, IMAP/SMTP, Gmail and Outlook with OAuth2, conversation threading, rich text TipTap composing, CardDAV contact sync, tracking removal, dark mode, color themes, vim-style shortcuts, and a detachable window.

    48 Aerion alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  8. Trojitá icon
     17 likes

    Trojitá, is a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client that respects open standards and facilitates modern technologies. Trojitá values vendor-neutrality that IMAP provides and is committed to be as interoperable as possible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. 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
     
  10. 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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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. 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
     
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