With respect, the point of my comment was that your opinion is irrelevant, so anyone agreeing with the thrust of my argument could well have down-voted you (I d

With respect, the point of my comment was that your opinion is irrelevant, so anyone agreeing with the thrust of my argument could well have down-voted you (I did not.) The point is not whether you or I think Mutt or gmail is better. The point is, what do people use? Which platforms or programs are they using? Are the alternatives realistic? Mutt is not a realistic alternative to gmail for the following reasons I just thought up: You need a mail server, you have to use the console, you have to install unix (or perl and cygwin.)