Scot Finnie writes intelligently about a lot of different computing issues. In his latest newsletter Scot was sharing his somewhat negative impression of Thunderbird when he then made a pitch for using PocoMail.
"Frankly, all, you can do better than this. There's a product called PocoMail that might be worth a look if you haven't tried it. It has much of the power of Eudora with a cleaner interface more like Outlook Express. My only qualm about PocoMail has been that the product is updated sporadically, and reliability hasn't always been excellent."
Here's a link to his web site where you can read the newsletter. Look for the mention of PocoMail in the section titled "Thunderbird Is No Firefox".
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/66.htm
Best,
Jeff