Good email client to use with Dovecot?

[Jochen Bern]

On 11/17/2016 08:48 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> When I use an email client, its purpose is as a window into my Dovecot
> IMAP, and as a mechanism to reply to and send emails. I don't do
> filtering or calendaring on my email client (filtering via procmail
> direct to Dovecot).
> 
> What email clients are all of you using to look at your IMAP email?

Plaintext or HTML mails? OpenPGP? S/MIME? Do you like to see your
e-mails arranged into threads, or just sorted by some property (be that
sender, date, or whatever)? What's your archiving system, many or few
folders, flat or hierarchical? Do you work remote, how good's the
connection to the IMAP server, do you need the capability to work on a
local cache while the server cannot be reached ("detached IMAP", I've
seen it called)?

I switched from tkRat (a.k.a. ratatosk) to Thunderbird when I had a need
to do "detached IMAP" (and tkRat repeatedly trashed my entire INBOX when
I tried). tkRat had interesting features (preselected primary archive
folder per folder you're reading, "folders" that actually are views of a
local database, minimalistic enough to bridge the distance with X11
instead of IMAP), but hasn't seen further development in ages.

With Thunderbird, there's a couple plugins I wouldn't want to part with.
Lightning for the calendaring, Enigmail for OpenPGP support, Allow HTML
Temp to stay with a default everything-as-plaintext setup but still
being able to quickly grok the occasional "my answers below in red"
reply, QuickFolders to have a bar of main archive folders I can
drag&drop read e-mails into. Address Close Button occupies the "not
*quite that* essential" rung.

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