It's been a number of years now, but I used to love Mozilla's Thunderbird email program. I'm considering going back to that if Yahoo doesn't get their chit together in the next couple of weeks.
I’m seriously frustrated and may have to start having my email forwarded. The majority of the time I close an email, I have a blank screen for my inbox. If I open an attachment, I get stuck there and have to reload the program. I loved the tabs. I could use them for reference easily when writing emails, have important ones readily available or ones I still needed to be reminded to respond to. I absolutely hate it now. Excite.com lost me as an email user when they changed their program many years ago and made it, too, nothing but one frustration after another. I miss the days of Eudora and not having to use Pine anymore. Now that was a sweet email change.
I should have phrased my question better - it’s not the email client that concerns me, I’m looking for suggestions for a back-end service that plays nice with IMAP/SMTP so I can have the convenience of a webmail account without having to deal with their websites, and preferably one that doesn’t treat my email as a corporate data-mining exercise. (Short of end-to-end encryption, I don’t expect to avoid the feds data-mining my email.)