Are you tired of terrible desktop email apps?

Here, we have Mailspring, one of the best desktop email clients that supports every major mail provider such as Gmail, iCloud, Office 365 and Outlook.com.

At Bobcares, we often get requests to install Mailspring on Linux as part of our Server Management Services.

Today, let’s get into the details and see how our Support Engineers install Mailspring and fix errors.

How we install Mailspring on Linux.

Mailspring is a new free e-mail client for Windows and Linux. Now, let’s see how our Support Engineers install Mailspring for Linux machines, Ubuntu.

One of the easiest ways to install Mailspring on Ubuntu is via by using snap.

For that,

1. We SSH into the server as a root user.

2. Then, we use the following command to install the Mailspring on Ubuntu.

snap install mailspring

After the installation, we will get an interface as follows.

Common errors while installing Mailspring on Linux – How we fixed?

At Bobcares, where we have more than a decade of expertise in managing servers, we see many customers face problems after installing the Mailspring on Linux.

Now, let’s see the major reasons for this Mailspring related errors and how our Support Engineers fix the top errors.

1. Improper installation

Recently, one of our customers had a problem while installing Mailspring on his server. He was unable to install Mailspring on the Ubuntu server.

Then, our Support Engineers installed the Mailspring by using the below steps. Here, we used gdebi to install the Mailspring package on the system.

1. To install gdebi, we run the following commands.

apt update
apt install gdebi-core wget

2. Next, we download the Mailspring installation package.

wget -O ~/mailspring.deb "https://updates.getmailspring.com/download?platform=lin

3. After that, we can find the Mailspring’s installation package within the home directory. So, we run the following command to install the package and When prompted answer y.

gdebi ~/mailspring.deb

This is how we did a Mailspring installation for the customer.

2. Incorrect login details

Similarly, many customers make mistakes while configuring an Email client. This is one of the reasons why the email client such as Mailspring does not receive and send an email.

Sometimes, customers may give incorrect user name and password. Often, this may happen due to human errors such as extra space, typing errors in user details, etc.

Surely, this ends up with an error while sending an email.

So, our Support Engineers suggest customers give correct user name and password while configuring an Email client on their system.

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Conclusion

In short, Mailspring is one of the best email clients that can run both Linux and Windows. Today, we saw how our Support Engineers installed Mailspring on Linux and fixed related errors.