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I've used Thunderbird with IMAP for literally at least a decade and have email back to 1998-ish. Haven't lost anything, occasionally had to rebuild Thunderbird'

• justin66 6y ago
  > Much easier to backup if your email is in one place and running even a local IMAP server is better than storing it in an email client. The 13-year old bug I linked to involves IMAP mail handling, I believe. I haven't dug too deeply into these bugs because, honestly... I'd like to be able to use Thunderbird for a couple of things, but mail handling doesn't need to be very screwed up for me to avoid the program. A 13 year old bug involving data loss is enough to make me avoid the program, even if it would not appear to effect my use case. > Haven't lost anything I guess I can understand how others might view it as "just email." I won't argue with the implied "I've never lost data to this program so it must never happen" argument, but I wonder how you know you've never lost anything. I feel like I'm capable of not noticing a data loss bug involving email, or not noticing until I need something and it is not there.