[fwdude]

Hate the cloud-based e-mail apps. I lost a LOT of saved emails when a service I used went down, and I didn’t have it on my local computer. Yes, this can happen even to a behemoth like MicroSoft.

[ducttape45]

Same here. I despise cloud based apps and I never used any of of the native Windows Mail or People apps. I always uninstall them when I program up W10.

Using cloud based technology makes a person dependent on the cloud and the trust that it'll never fail. Most learned users know that to be not true at all, and very dangerous. I prefer to keep all my email local and on my machine, period. It's safer that way.

I use Thunderbird on my local machine with Outlook 2019 as a backup. I'm happy.

[wafflehouse]

if you dont hold it, you dont own it.

[JimRed]

I lost a LOT of saved emails when a service I used went down, and I didn’t have it on my local computer.

I bought Carbonite in 2012 to protect my data. In 2013 I had a crash, losing everything and had to buy a new HP PC. When I asked Carbonite to load the saved data to my new PC they demanded a serial number and passcode which had been lost with everything else. Never got a thing from them.

[Myrddin]

My IMAP server was getting bloated. To fix that, I put up a POP3 client on a Linux box and drained all but the last 30 days to the local filesystem. I made lots of folders and moved the mail items to sender-specific folders. A big win for cutting the IMAP down to size and not losing the content.

Just a note: the server is in my domain and I created a POP3 server that "eats" from the same data as the IMAP.