Plus if i quit the mail program, all the mail windows close. Having everything open via the web browser makes making sense of my open windows more of a hassle. I -like- my email windows have a different title bar, a different icon in the task bar, etc.

#2 I already have half a dozen browser windows and tabs open if not more.

#1 I like really advanced complex features like having multiple messages open simultaneously, the average web interface either doesn't support this or does it poorly. Why not use the web interface? Email is simple enough that in my experience there really isn't a lot that a native app can do that a good webmail interface can't. It's almost enough to make me go back to mutt, if they've resolved their clunky approach to multiple accounts, that is. Outlook gives me hives and, while Eudora was once a genuinely nice app, it's fallen by the wayside. It's prone to weird behaviour that causes significant CPU load and all too often renders it so unresponsive that only a kill -9 will put me out of its misery.īUT. Its search has gotten worse in the last couple of versions, and it just loses the plot sometimes when trying to connect and sync with multiple IMAP accounts on a flaky Internet connection (which, tragically, is the only kind we have in my country). That said, I agree with many posters here that Thunderbird is the least worst email client out there now. That way -in theory, at least- I can index and search my 3+ GB of mail in real time, across multiple accounts. I download my mail and keep a copy on the server. I'm generally not a big fan of web apps and 'the cloud' as a substitute for native apps, but unless you host your own email server, you're relying on someone else to store your email anyway.

Mozilla thunderbird mail client