Convey is an email application built around conversations, for the GNOME desktop. It allows you to read, find and send email with a straightforward, modern interface.
Conversations allow you to read a complete discussion without having to find and click from message to message.
Convey is a fork of Geary, originally developed by the Geary Development Team and the Software Freedom Conservancy.
Convey’s features include:
- Quick email account setup
- Shows related messages together in conversations
- Fast, full text and keyword search
- Full-featured HTML and plain text message composer
- Desktop notification of new mail
- Compatible with GMail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com and other IMAP servers
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Observed history
| App | Change | Version | When ↓ |
|---|---|---|---|
| updated | 50.2-1 | 21 Sept 2026 | |
| new | 50.2-1 | 15 Sept 2026 |
Upstream releases
Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
50.2-120 Sept 2026
- Show nested folders on Microsoft accounts
- Create subfolders from the folder list context menu within the app
- Open GNOME Online Accounts directly when adding an account
50.216 Sept 2026
- Refreshed application icons, screenshots and branding colours
- Add a combined "All Inboxes" view spanning every account
- Reopen the inbox last viewed at launch, or a fixed one of your choosing
- Remember which parts of the folder list were left collapsed
- Add a Starred folder for Microsoft accounts, showing its total count
- Page through large folders on Graph accounts
50.111 Sept 2026
- Persist folders from Graph accounts so they load offline
- Fix unpredictable folder keyboard navigation
- Deselect conversations on Escape, disable autoselect in Trash and Junk
- Fix dark mode rendering in certain emails
- Fix context menu positioning in the message body
- Replace libcanberra and gsound with GStreamer for notification sounds
- Drop the unused libspelling dependency
- Numerous user interface and styling fixes
50.026 Aug 2026
The first Convey release, forked from Geary 46.0.
Enhancements included in this release:
- Ported the interface to GTK4 and libadwaita
- Added a Microsoft Graph backend for Outlook and Microsoft 365 accounts
- Rebranded as Convey, with new application icons
- Create, rename and delete folders from the sidebar
- Reworked conversation list with keyboard navigation between panes
- Message colours now follow the system light and dark preference immediately
- Redrawn notification avatars, rendered at the display's pixel density
- Reworked address completion as a navigable dropdown
- Ported plugins to libpeas-2 and migrated to gcr-4 and gck-2
- Numerous bug fixes and user interface improvements