Your Thunderbird experience is almost completely opposite of mine. Gnus is my main e-mail client but there are a couple of Windows machines I run Thunderbird on.
All of your points can be solved by going through the configuration options. Maybe that shouldn't be necessary, but not everyone's the same.
Likewise. There hasn't been a lot of innovation in the Thunderbird client, but it consistently and mostly stays out of the way. Search is pretty fast and messages go where they're supposed to go.
In ~five years of using it across three machines, I've only had two instances in which a folder got corrupted, and in both cases I was able to repair it and recover the messages.
Also, when I migrated from Windows to Linux, transitioning my email profile was utterly seamless.
Well the prompt for html/plain text can be turned off... But I also had a hard time finding it when I started using Thunderbird.
Junk in your inbox - use a e-mail server with a good junk mail filter... your e-mail client won't ever be as good as filtering... and you don't want to be downloading tons of e-mails before you can filter them...
I'm tired of:
- Getting prompted for every single message whether I want to send in html or plain text format.
- Search that takes forever.
- Junk in my inbox, messages I wanted in junk.
- A UI that finds any excuse to pop a modal dialog in my way.
Can anyone recommend another FOSS mail client that it is both good, and cross platform?