W’s blag

I’m looking for a mail client to use, that has a bare minimum of features;

• The ability to retrieve mail from POP3 (while leaving the mail on the server) and IMAP.
• Display of plain-text email, ability to save attachments.
• The ability to enter the from-address in a text field (and not a drop-down from a list, even if that list is editable) when sending email.
• The ability to display mail in a graphical table view, sortable on received date, sender, topic.
• The ability to store mail client-side in a tree-like/directory structure, with rules to decide which mail goes to which node.
• The ability to see, and filter on, the actual target email from the trusted Received: header (IE the email address used in the RCPT command to the trusted SMTP, not the envelope target) preferably without having to manually eyeball it out of the headers of the emails.
• The ability to block/ HTML and images in incoming mail.

Please suggest to me mail clients that fulfil ALL of these requirements. Register and comment on this post, or send suggestions to

(or let me know on IRC or Facebook if you know me there).

Things that would be nice to have in addition:

• Free and open source.
  • Written in Java
• Listed with each mail: the server, protocol, and username used to download it.
• Simple scripting interface.
• RSS support
• User-friendly encrypted and signed email support.