@aachrisg i am generation $x (`$` as used in PHP) :-)

@aras so in my case i have thunderbird + proton bridge quarantined off to a veracrypt volume with both of them specially configured to only download and read emails from there. though, at that point, cold-starting the email client is such a hassle i just often end up going to the web version anyways.

@aras another really bad thing about local email clients is that all of them download your mail and just store them on disk un-encrypted. that's insane, and should NOT be the default for something as sensitive as e-mail. so you have to use something like veracrypt to set up a separate volume where all your mail software and downloaded email lives.
additionally, if you use proton mail, their bridge app ALSO downloads email

@aras if you find a reasonable email client, please post an update. there is barely any competent e-mail software left, it's all dead.
the only exception is apple mail (which does no good on on-apple platforms). windows mail used to be decent but ms killed it.
pegasus mail is still amazingly hobbling along but it's very... old, and it shows.

@pythno there is one by @sascha though I still haven't got around to reading it