The Best Worst Email Client

In November of last year, I wrote about what I did and didn’t want to do in Emacs. It’s great for anything that involves text editing/processing, good for certain kinds of management tasks (it’s a great Git client, and even has surprisingly useful file management tricks up its sleeve); it’s not—at least to me—great for tasks that involve viewing, like RSS reading and PDF viewing. I’ve kept putting this to the test, and stand by most of what I said back then. Most of the time I’d rather view PDFs in Apple’s own Preview. When it comes to RSS, I want good typography and the ability to read on my iPad and iPhone—Elfeed, for all the virtues it undoubtedly has, is a nonstarter for me. (Yes, I really tried. More than once.) Email, though…well. Here’s the thing about me and email clients: I hate pretty much all of them. The last email program I truly loved was Bare Bones’ Mailsmith. Quoting from Matt Neuburg’s 2003 (!) review: Since the notion that your current email client might need…