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Which one would you use? There are a lot of flags to be configured, and whenever I set up Thunderbird, I'm unconvinced it's done a thorough job. I've also seen it re-download an entire mailbox for no apparent reason. And it doesn't actually support tags.

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Yes - it's not simple to make sure you've done the right thing to make email clients backup correctly.

I used to be a regular Thunderbird user on Windows because the mail file format would be open, but haven't touched desktop email since GMail.

If I were to make a choice now, I'd look at those with conversation support i.e. Postbox or Thunderbird for Windows, Sparrow or Lion's Mail.app for Mac.

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