I don’t know why, but all local email clients lately suck. Mutt sucks more, not less. They all get confused about your mailboxes having tens of thousands of messages, an unavoidable side effect of your email provider giving you many gigabytes of email space. They all fuck up your threads. They all freeze while pulling another thousand of headers for that high-traffic mailing list. They all suck mightily at search. They all have a broken UI paradigm and show you the least important thing first.
Believe you me, I tried them all.
Actually, the only email client that sucked the least of them all was Microsoft Outlook. I’d never believe I’d admit it while sober, but here I am.
Now it looks like your email provider’s webmail is not that bad, unless it’s some sort of imap client on server (RoundCube, for example). It efficiently delivers a view into your whole mailbox without downloading the whole thing. Search works better. You define your email rules and they work at the source.
Dunno, man, the world sucks in general, and the world of email in particular.
Agreed. All I want is the ability to grep my mail.