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Uh... Did I miss the part where he explained what was wrong with existing clients? Without a clear, specific problem to solve, this is going to be an exercise in wasted time.

I was looking over the mailing list and just about everything I see mentioned can be done with Mutt (or Sup). Personally, I use gnus on emacs. Add in some org-mode magic and you have just about everything anyone could ask for (well, search is not as nice as I'd like it).

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I just wish it was faster (on large mailboxes) and more stable. I'm stuck on gmail for now.

http://sup.rubyforge.org/

I'd love to try sup, but the incompatibility with other email clients makes it a non-starter for me. At minimum I need to use my phone's mail client without sup having to rebuild its index every time.

I love "everything is just fine, all you have to use is (20 year old|text based software)" comments, especially when the suggested software has an FAQ with this entry:

+ I'm an average user. Why should I switch to Mutt? The top two reasons to switch are color support and threading.

To be fair, threading is a very important feature in a mail client, and by no means all mail clients have it. Yes, there's a lot of very crappy webmail around.

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