I would have thought with the importance of e-mail and the more demanding needs of the average user the e-mail client developers would wake up.
POP 3 mailboxes? Who still uses them? All my colleagues and friends are all on IMAP. Why battle with POP3 when IMAP allows you to see what you did at the office at home and vice versa. One mailbox everywhere. Even the free hosting services are offering IMAP. If you still on POP3. What's wrong with you?
Saying that why is there so little support for IMAP. Is it to complex to the developers or are they still stuck in the lala land of development where they presume to know what we the end user wants? I mean Apple mail the "sleek one" can't even save a sent messages to the Sent mail folder which makes a super cool program useless. Opera mail: God knows what they thought when they created their mail client - unusable is an understatement. Outlook works brilliant but sadly only the Windows version, as for the Mac version (Entourage) delete a message and it stays around with a line through it. Why? Delete means get rid of it! Manage around 300 to 400 message in everyday (not spam) and see how quickly the line piss you off. Now on the free side is Thunderbird from the makers of Firefox it does what it says on the tin. Why is it so slow? Move a email from one folder to another and it's time for tea as you wont get to do much else. It's uploading then downloading then uploading - messages on the server so why the traffic.
Aaarghh wake-up software developers. We want stuff that work not do fancy stuff nobody ever uses. Get the underlying services to work the way they should first. PLEASE. I don't want to spend my life battling to manage my e-mail.
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