It'd be nice if there was anything out there one could install that was as good as GMail's frontend, but sadly that doesn't exist. I don't miss it at all thoug

It'd be nice if there was anything out there one could install that was as good as GMail's frontend, but sadly that doesn't exist. I don't miss it at all though - I find that 99% of my email needs are on desktop and mobile, and the native clients on just about any such platforms are more than a match for GMail. I still have a webmail client I fall back to - nothing quite as good as GMail, but that's more for when I need to look something up on a public terminal. On the flip side - I gain an unhijackable account. Worst case scenario they make off with all of my information, but I never lose ownership of the account. I also know my server's backup policies, so short of cracking my host wide open they can copy my data, but never destroy it.