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Almost everyone I know using email for business uses a desktop client - usually Mac Mail, sometimes thunderbird.

A new client that isn't quite so neglected would be very welcome.

Another use case is someone like me. I absolutely love Fastmail's web client, it's better than any other web client I've used including Gmail. However, I also have a few email addresses for domains that I own, and I don't want to deal with clunky forwarding; I prefer to use them as-is. For those it's much, much easier to use a good desktop client rather than set up and maintain Roundcube or even SquirrelMail on my servers.

Windows 10's Mail app is not quite up to the task; it's fine for Outlook.com webmail but I need something much more powerful on Windows without having to buy Outlook proper (on Linux this obviously isn't an issue, there is a wealth of good desktop email clients for X and the console). So far I've been doing well with Thunderbird, but I'm tempted to give Vivaldi a shot since I was always a fan of Opera's email integration.

My circle of Friends and Family contains a few Outlook[0] diehards as well.

I sympathize, as I was an Evolution loyalist for a very long time. It started crashing under the load of multi-GB folders, so I migrated to GMail.

I was considering switching to Thunderbird when they dissolved Mozilla Messaging[1]. Now my G-Suite storage is running up against the free limits, so I will probably be looking at migrating email back to the desktop this year.

[0] No, not Outlook Express (with it's support for NNTP), I mean the version of Outlook that is part of Office.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Messaging

I'm using Thunderbird and I can't wait for a mail client comparable to the old Opera's to switch. It would be fantastic.

Check out polymail.co

it would be nice if Trojita was ready for everyday use.

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