We carry a couple of email accounts there and Thunderbird can handle the multiple accounts. Also, our Samsung phones use the included Samsung mail client in IMAP mode.Īll of these devices use one 'old-school' ISP account's Linux mail server that I am pretty sure has no interest in mining our mail for advertising purposes. We use Thunderbird on two desktop machines using POP3 (download the mail for permanent records purposes), a shop PC using IMAP protocol, and two laptops used for field service using IMAP as well. Now, if you mean you have a Desktop native client from Outlook that does all these (haven't bothered to learn if it exists) and want to know why Thunderbird and not what you already have, then yes, open source is the way and it does the job for me, I have nothing else to say about it. Since setting up my accounts there, I have not needed to fire up the web clients of my respective accounts. Thunderbird is a native app, open source and fully customizable. A full tab for each one, each more resource hungry and slower than the whole of the Thunderbird app. In order to avoid having to load the online web clients of my mail services. For what it's worth, Thunderbird was alive and well (and I think it also managed to fetch mail from Gmail servers, while the Gmail web client was unavailable, but I did not specifically check) when Google services were down earlier this week. In order to have my mail available offline. Also, I cannot aggregate Protonmail, which I destine to be my main account, in the online services, but I can with Thunderbird.

In these services mail aggregation is an afterthought, for Thunderbird it's its reason to exist. Mostly automatic setup, less cumbersome than gathering my accounts on one of the online services, e.g. In order to have all my mail accounts in one place. As someone who installed Thunderbird a week ago, and indeed saw no need for it until recently, I started using it:

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