[mstaoru]

My journey was between four clients (Mac). For a long time, I used Postbox. It was reasonably fast, its search wasn't great but wasn't too bad either (it still doesn't search Chinese well), but as I grew bored, I decided to try something new.

Comes Spark. All shiny, with nice fast search and much fresher UI. Fast-forward half a year, and after an update, it loses all my custom signatures (I use a lot), rebuilds the whole search database (took almost a whole day), and still no support for SOCKS proxying neither app-wide nor per account.

Tried Mailspring after that, similar UI, good search, but too many bugs and freezes on core things: sending emails, receiving emails can take forever. Also the need for Mailspring account is creepy and unnecessary.

So I'm back to Thunderbird, it got a bit better over the years, but still, if I need to search Chinese I have to go to the corresponding web UI.

Will try MailMate once I have some spare time.