>As for email clients, I do keep wondering how Thunderbird can be so slow, how its rendering system can be so shite. I leave Thunderbird open in the background

>As for email clients, I do keep wondering how Thunderbird can be so slow, how its rendering system can be so shite. I leave Thunderbird open in the background and come back to a notification that some component or other crashed. Happens all the time, no clue why. Email is common enough that I'd expect there to be a half-decent client for it, but I don't know of one... (IRC is also common, at least among people who write code, but I don't know of a free client that isn't worse than running irssi in cygwin.)