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And no Pine? 
Strange to think, but after all these years, there is still no truly good email client in existence. Give me something that, besides having a well-designed interface suitable to someone with multiple sources of incoming mail, can handle a large message store from decades of archived messages, lets me own my own mail (read: isn't a webmail service), allows real tagging/labeling (not on the order of a dozen tags or something, but treats it as a first-class classification system, like Gmail except with genuinely hierarchical tags), searches quickly and allows advanced searches, puts no silly limit on the number of email addresses that can be associated with a contact and lets us search by contact rather than by email address (because really, after decades of email use, we haven't figured out that any given person is likely to have had more than 3 addresses over all that time? I have more than that many at any given *one* time.) It has to allow very quick filing, ideally without leaving the keyboard. Certainly no having to click on a dropdown of tags and scroll through it multiple times. It should support encryption. It needs to store its messages in a format that makes for easy synchronization between systems without magic and finger-crossing or even any specialty tools at all (I'm looking at you, Outlook and your .PST files that change every time you open Outlook even when you don't look at a message), such as a one-file-per-message scheme. It needs to thread messages properly, which almost none do (Gmail-style conversations are only halfway there; I mean true threads, like we had years ago on Usenet, or like The Bat does reasonably well today), and which Outlook and the rest still can't do. (Threading only on subject is an *awful* solution when you have mail from years in your archive, as it links together huge numbers of utterly unrelated messages.) It needs to let you choose the sort order instead of imposing that godawful most-recent-first sort on you. And it should be free of charge. Just kidding, I don't even care about the cost part at this point, I've been drowning under the inefficiency of every email client out there for years, even with helpers like NEO Pro and Taglocity.
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