Geary is not showing any email providers on first-time startup

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I am new to Linux (using Linux Mint) and wanted a good and light email client so I installed Geary using Mint’s software manager. After launching it, the window says “Welcome to Geary; To get started, select an email provider below”, but there’s nothing showing below as seen in the attached image

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I tried uninstalling and reinstalling from the software manager, same thing happened. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling using the Terminal (sudo apt install geary), same thing happened. I’m not sure where the issue is or what to do, and could not find any answers online. Please help?

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Hi its possible that this issue is fixed in the latest release of geary, if you don’t know linux mint ships very old versions of packages. One (recommended) way to get up to date packages straight from the developers is to use flatpak Flatpak—the future of application distribution
Simply do : flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Geary and it should install the latest version of it

Make sure to remove geary installed from linux mint repository first tho! (sudo apt remove geary)

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