About mail clients
"I'm convinced there's some contest to see who can make the worst graphical mail client for Linux. I'm not sure what the prize is, or who's winning, but the entries so far are horrific." - Dave Jones
After posting this I've realized I participated in this contest a year ago, with my never-released Haskell-written ncurses-based MUA, lazymail. That was hell of an ugly client.
Didn't he give any examples?
He didn't, but they were talking about Thunderbird.