No question, Weatherman, you are right. That's certainly true for folks who have a lot of email to manage and are not in a wifi spot consistently. To affirm your point, I've heard as many good things about Claws as bad things about the built in app.

It's a personal thing really...I simply decided that I am better off waiting till I'm online to get to the emails...it's why I abandoned the crackberry

BTW I've read here in ITT that Modest Mail is coming, but the notes I've seen are still for the advanced users. I'll wait for an install file