[maheart]

I'll add my two cents. I use emacs for email (mu4e+mbsync) and having used Thunderbird, Claws, Gmail, Roundcube (probably many others), emacs is, without a doubt (for me) the fastest way to launch/read/search/reply emails.

I can launch an emacs email client in 1/10th of a second, and it takes me straight to my inbox which is setup to highlight the emails I'm interested in. Opening an email to read is again 1/10th second (thanks to mbsync). Finally search via mu4e/xapian is blindingly fast (faster than gmail). For me, the competitors aren't even close.

[drevil-v2]

Genuinely curious what your life is like such that an email app that takes longer than 1/10th of a second is just beyond the pale? Are you really that time poor?

[NotSammyHagar]

It's really nice to have fast response clients. .1 or .3 seconds doesn't matter in the sense of saving 1000 seconds a day probably, but immediate response from tools is useful.

[_emacsomancer_]

gmail is significantly slower: it's not like 1/10th of a second vs 3/10th of a second.