The problem with the best Mac email client is that it doesn’t exist. There are a few good ones, they all break when things get heavy.
Apple Mail – The default email client is not bad. However, there are so many little quirks in its UI that using all day makes for a stressful experience.
Microsoft Entourage – A beautiful mail client and nice PIM, has great IMAP support. The only problem I have with it is its “Main Identity / Database” storage system. Entourage stores all its data in this huge file, prone to corruption and impractical for daily backups. It’s also incompatible between different language versions of Mac Office; I still have a database with few gigs of data from French Microsoft Office for Mac 2004, waiting for a way to import it.
Mozilla Thunderbird – It’s as ugly and unreliable as ever. It has the drawbacks of both Mail and Entourage.
Web mail client – Impractical.
There are projects like MailCore and GyazMail but those are not quite there yet.
I’ll keep using Apple Mail until Entourage changes its storage system. It’s not impossible, given that it most of its users insist for Time Machine compatibility.
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