A late addition to an older thread, but this seemed like the most relevant thread to ask: is there a way to make an addin email client behave more like the default? My wife likes Claws better, but if she forgets and goes to the "regular" menus rather than finding Claws in the "extras", she ends up in the default client again. Also, if you close the default client, it still checks mail, whereas Claws doesn't.

Can either of those behaviors be changed (i.e. put the Claws shortcut in the main menus in place of default email, and have Claws always running)? Could I do those with Modest (never tried it)? blackoper's post seemed to imply that Modest might do the second.