Thunderbird user here. Email clients are really useful when you have more than one email account. Everything is in one place and you don't have to keep signing into multiple accounts all the time.<p>I've been using Thunderbird because I simply cannot find an email client that provide that much functionally, respects your privacy and doesn't randomly break.<p>But there is email client that I am looking forward to called [0]mailpile, that I will probably switch to once its reached v1.0 (early October)<p>[0] <a href="https://www.mailpile.is/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mailpile.is/</a>
I use Thunderbird for all my emails (or almost), mainly for PGP, the plugins and the consistency (I don't have to switch from a web platform to another )
I still use Apple Mail most days. To read mail - could you expand on your "why?" a little as it seems difficult to understand what you are asking?
Yes. Why? PGP through Enigmail. Also I don't have to be logged into Google's services to read my email.<p>Why would I not use an email client?
I use it all the time as an email client and RSS reader on Windows and Linux.
Why? Well, I like it, and as somebody who prefers desktop applications for everything, it's the only one I know that can do both mail and RSS.