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I ran Pegasus until I switched to Linux and used XFMail [1]. It was a great client, and my parents continued to use it until they eventually switched to Thunderbird.

I eventually gave up on imap / pop3 clients and strictly use webmail today.

1. https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/XFmail

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Why do you use webmail? I don't get the point.

There's no client setup and I can access it from just about anywhere.

I used to optimize for the same scenario. But I realized that I very rarely use random machines that aren't my own. Plus my habits shifted even further once I started relying on my own (intentionally) private services accessible over Tailscale. These days I'm uncomfortable logging into anything of importance on a public machine without using a one time password or at least dual factor authentication, which isn't always possible.

I use email services which support U2F, such as yubikey. Thankfully that is supported in most environments today.

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