But the biggest win with stand-alone mail clients is that you can make them work the way you want I want my email to show me a list of contacts a-z (no mru). I

But the biggest win with stand-alone mail clients is that you can make them work the way you want I want my email to show me a list of contacts a-z (no mru). I can filter this list by: have unread messages, are unknown, etc. Sort however I want. Group however I want, “smart” or manually. Omnisearch at the top. No “inbox”, “trash”, “sent”. I can select a contact just like an icq/wa/tg chat and see messages with it to the right. Maybe group messages by subj maybe not. Subj is not mandatory. The client should remove all of the top and bottom auto-citation, automatically extract and update contact info from signatures, remove them and show messages’ meat in bubbles, mine to the right, theirs to the left. Replies, and forwards have links to their “parent”. I can join two email addresses into one contact card, maybe create a subtree. The envelope encryption just works, because the server has a pubkey, either mine or autogenerated and published, or both. I can choose between local storage and cloud storage per device. I can send files >> 20mb, including archives, executables, js files. My known contacts can see if I received/read their message and vice versa. I can ban, mute, hide contacts. I can change/add my address, phone, position, name, etc and contacts will pick that easily, if I allow them see it at all. So no, I don’t think I can make any email client to work the way I want. If you think that all of this was inspired by modern messengers, nope. It’s just common sense. The fact is, messengers f’ing nailed it and email as a whole is mostly a slow and unreliable bloatware and doesn’t make much sense. If it were decently designed, there would be no whatsapp and other pure-messaging systems, because we’d already have one.