I've been trying to find a decent email client for a long time under Win32, and I'm still not there. I get a lot of email, and I need more than just a show-me-the-message reader.

For a couple of years I have used Eudora, but it's just lousy: some email messages simply make it fail with an exception, and I don't know why I stuck with it for so long. Eudora is history.

About two weeks ago I moved to Outlook Express 6, and though it moves very smoothly, it doesn't support message filters on IMAP mail accounts. I very much want to use IMAP so that I can get my mail from (say) my laptop, plus keep folders on my Linux mail server. But not being able to automatically route mailing list mail (Bugtraq, for instance) means I have to do it all by hand. This is impossible. Outlook Express has security issues that make me nervous anyway.

Finally I decided to try Mozilla, and it's very promising. Never a core dump, works very smoothly, but there is no way to apply filters to an existing message. This means that my mailbox (with 2000 msgs) can't be filtered automatically - I have to do it by hand.

Once I finish, though, I'm encouraged that I'll be able to keep on top of this. But it's been very, very annoying.