No Mail User Agent is ideal, but some are better than others.

mutt

Evolution

Thunderbird

K-9 Mail

FairEmail

Outlook

Outlook on the Web

Reasonably complete IMAP client support

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?

ⁿ̸ₐ

Store sent messages in INBOX

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{X}

{X}

Store replies in same folder

{X}

(./)

(./)

{X}

{X}

Virtual trash folder

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(./)

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{X}

{X}

Virtual spam folder

{X}

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{X}

{X}

{X}

Threaded conversations

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(./)

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{X}

{X}

Autoconfiguration

{X}

{X}

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ⁿ̸ₐ

Sane manual configuration

{X}

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ⁿ̸ₐ

ⁿ̸ₐ

Reasonably painless consumption of HTML mail

{X}

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Switch between plaintext and HTML in composer

{X}

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{X}

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{X}

Switch between posting style (top/bottom-quoting) in composer

{X}

{X}

{X}

{X}

{X}

PGP

(./)

(./)

(./)

{X}

{X}

Paragraph styles, indenting, lists, etc. in plaintext composer

ⁿ̸ₐ

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{X}

{X}

{X}

Compose in external editor

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{X}

{X}

{X}

{X}

Respect mailing list headers

{X}

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{X}

{X}

Add arbitrary headers to all outgoing messages

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{X}

{X}

{X}

{X}

Sieve client

{X}

{X}

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{X}

{X}

IMAP Quota display

{X}

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{X}

{X}

Redirect ("bounce") message

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{X}

{X}

Has neither caused nor contributed to the absolute ruination of the email ecosystem

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{X}

{X}

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