Mailspring is a free desktop email client, available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. Mailspring with modern features like unified inbox, snoozing, reminders, templates, offline search, and support for Gmail labels. It is free and supports all IMAP providers, including Gmail, Office 365, and iCloud. It also consists of a Pro Version which adds even more features into the already feature-rich application.

Here at Ibmi Media, as part of our Server Management Services, we regularly help our Customers to perform related Software Installation queries on Ubuntu Linux system.

In this context, we shall look into how to install MailSpring on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. 

Steps to install MailSpring on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa

1. Perform System Update 

First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt commands in the terminal:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade

2. Download Mailspring DEB package

To do this, download the package from Mailspring official website:

$ sudo apt install curl
$ $ curl –O https://updates.getmailspring.com/download?platform=linuxDeb

When the installation is complete, you can open a terminal and navigate to the folder where the download was made. In our case, it's in the Downloads folder.

$ cd Downloads/

3. Install Mailspring on the system

Now install it with the help of the APT command:

$ sudo apt install ./mailspring-1.7.8-amd64.deb

Note: The name of the package will change as the version of the application changes. You only have to change it.

Other way of installing MailSpring

An alternative method of installing mailspring is via the Snap Store.

So you will have to Enable snaps on Ubuntu and install mailspring as demonstrated below.

1. Enable snapd

snapd can be installed from the command line:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install snapd

2. Install mailspring using snap

To install mailspring, simply use the following command:

$ sudo snap install mailspring

How to access Mailspring on the system ?

Once successfully installed, you can find it in the list of your installed applications or you can launch the Mailspring using the snap command:

$ mailspring

How to Uninstall Mailspring from Ubuntu 20.04 ?

Removing Mailspring on Ubuntu is quite simple and will depend on the method you have chosen.

You can run the below command in your terminal to uninstall it:

$ sudo apt autoremove mailspring

If you have used snap, then simply open the terminal and run:

$ sudo snap remove mailspring

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