Suggestions for mail client?

[dreamshark]

Now that Minicon is over it's time to look for a new mail program. I drifted into using gmail some years ago when Pegasus stopped working with my anti-virus program. I always intended to find another mail client, but never got around to it. It is handy having web-based mail that can be accessed from anywhere. And Google seemed to be an organization that understood their users' desire for privacy. The Google Buzz disaster put that notion to rest. Now that Google has decided they want to be the new Facebook, I think it's time to reconsider our relationship.

I never really liked the gmail user interface anyway, especially their fixation on the idea that if you have tags then you don't need mail folders. Gmail is okay for casual email, but trying to manage the flood of Minicon programming email without folders was a nightmare. I had the same problem when I was doing a lot of selling on ebay.  It just doesn't scale up.

So I'm looking for recommendations. Ideally I would like a mail client that supports both hierarchical folders AND tags. I'd like to be able to have multiple mail logins, each with its own settings (From, Reply-to, default sigfile, etc.).  It doesn't have to be free, but preferably not business-level expensive.  Any suggestions?

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I went from Pegasus to Thunderbird. It seems to meet all your listed criteria, maybe; wait, not sure it does enough tagging for you (I'm not using what it does do).

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

I agree -- at least take a look at Mozilla Thunderbird.

[jiawen]

T-bird does tagging, but not across folders, so far as I can tell. That is, you can sort by tag within a given folder, but there's no way to search across folders that I've seen.

Otherwise, it does all that stuff.