Another 2 votes for Thunderbird, one from work and one from home.

At home I have always used a 'home server' with IMAP installed and it 
centralizes my various mail accounts and works sweetly. I can then use 
any mail client anywhere to access it. Thunderbird 3 has worked well for 
me in terms of indexing and displaying the mail.

At work I use the IMAP interface to the Exchange server. I use local 
folders to manage my (large) mail account (bcause my on-server quota is 
smallish). I have found that when I migrated from a windows to linux 
desktop machine, that the best way to migrate the e-mail messages was to 
use Exchange to load the messages from the outlook client on to the IMAP 
server, and then re-download them in to the local folders on the Linux 
thunderbird client. I never got the 'tools' to reliably read the Outlook 
express files (they are password protected somehow).

So, two thumbs up for thunderbird.

Setting up the rules again was a bit of a pain, but I only have a couple 
of dozen at work and home is all on the server (including spamassassing 
for dealing with spam, and other rules for mailinglists, etc).

I upgraded to Thunderbird 3.0.4 recently from 2.x something (about a 
week ago). I have had no problems at all, other than adjusting to some 
minor interface changes, which, I think, are in fact improvements.

Rolf

On 11/06/2010 9:57 AM, mcd@is-sixsigma.com wrote:
>> I receive several hundred emails per day and I like it that way.
>> I use many email folders and many message rules.
>>      
> The business of moving my set of rules was very frustrating, and kept me
> on OE for far too long.
>
>    
snip
> Once you have you mail off on an IMAP server, if you try Thunderbird and
> don't like it, you can move to another client with no hassle; all your
> email is still there, you rules for sorting into folders are unchanged,
> life is good.  And you didn't loose any of your old emails in the process.
>
> Oh yeah, I'm currently using Evolution; not sure I'd recommend it.  I'll
> probably go to Thunderbird when I find one of them round tuit thingies.
>
> --McD
>
>
>    

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