{"id":256420,"date":"2026-05-26T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/ive-tried-so-many-linux-email-clients-why-aerion-just-replaced-geary-as-my-top-pick\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:00:10","slug":"ive-tried-so-many-linux-email-clients-why-aerion-just-replaced-geary-as-my-top-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/ive-tried-so-many-linux-email-clients-why-aerion-just-replaced-geary-as-my-top-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve tried so many Linux email clients &#8211; why Aerion just replaced Geary as my top pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/home-and-office\/work-life\/aerion-my-new-favorite-email-client\/\">I&#8217;ve tried so many Linux email clients &#8211; why Aerion just replaced Geary as my top pick<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/home-and-office\/work-life\/aerion-my-new-favorite-email-client\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/home-and-office\/work-life\/aerion-my-new-favorite-email-client\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 22:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Jack Wallen\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET: <span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span> on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Linux has several email clients, but this new one is tops for me.<\/li>\n<li>Aerion is clean, easy to use, and lightweight.<\/li>\n<li>This app supports several email accounts, is free to use, and is open source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the longest time, Geary has been my default email client. It&#8217;s lightweight, simple, and offers a nice, modern GUI. But I&#8217;ve always been bothered by certain issues with this client.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, if I use Geary with a tiling window manager, the GUI doesn&#8217;t always behave properly depending on where I place it. If the Geary window isn&#8217;t wide enough, when I click an email, the email consumes the entire app (instead of leaving the email list and sidebar visible). Also, when I launch Geary on Pop!_OS, the app sometimes doesn&#8217;t appear until I run the geary command. Although these aren&#8217;t exactly deal-breakers, they&#8217;re annoying.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: Here&#8217;s my favorite email trick for cleaning up inbox clutter &#8211; automatically<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, when I heard about a new, cross-platform email client available for Linux (as well as MacOS and Windows), I had to try it out.<\/p>\n<p>The client in question is called Aerion, an open-source app that is Linux-first, privacy-focused, lightweight, and efficient. The GUI is well laid out, so anyone can jump in and start using the app right away, with no learning curve. Aerion is sponsored by 3DF, a Hong Kong-based IT consultancy that calls itself &#8220;Asia&#8217;s leading technical operations partner.&#8221; For those concerned about the trustworthiness of 3DF and Aerion, you can view the source code for the email app in the official GitHub repository.<\/p>\n<p>Aerion isn&#8217;t chock full of features, so you don&#8217;t have to worry about getting overwhelmed; it&#8217;s basic, easy, and clean. Aerion supports email accounts such as Gmail, Outlook\/Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, iCloud Mail, ProtonMail Bridge, Fastmail, Zoho Mail, AOL Mail, GMX Mail, Mail.com, and IMAP\/POP. It includes rich-text message formatting, theming, in-window or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/home-and-office\/work-life\/aerion-my-new-favorite-email-client\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tried so many Linux email clients &#8211; why Aerion just replaced Geary as my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/1204ce64aec0c221613cae8a120ecd04b6760ace\/2026\/05\/26\/fa3b8336-13ee-458c-8265-26ef30f78e98\/aerionhero.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-256420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256423,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256420\/revisions\/256423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}