IMAP Clients
On my Mac, I’ve been pretty happy with Mail.app as an IMAP client. It seems to fit just right. It does the things I need the way I want them to, without doing too much more. HTML mail would be nice (and I guess it is in Leopard) but really that isn’t that big of a deal (at all).
Windows on the other hand seems to lack a decent IMAP client. Outlook works kinda, except the deleting email kinda sucks, and sent email always goes into the “primary” account or something. Thunderbird is OK but it doesn’t feel quite right. It also doesn’t seem to cache the emails, so for large emails I keep on having to hit my server.
For instance, I have this one email with a bunch of large attachments. In order to save all the attachments, it seems like it needs to redownload the entire email each time it saves an attachment. WTF? So, say the total file is 12 megs and it has some 10 attachments (I didn’t actually count). It appears to need to transfer 120 megs to save the attachments. Joy.
Err.. What else is there really? Eudora? Thunderbird by a different name now. Outlook Express? Pegasus?