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Until now I always used Incredimail since I can set multiple IMAP accounts and have all the emails shown in a "general" inbox folder, every email in the list displayed with the color corresponding to the color I have previously set. But I have grown tired of Incredimail being slow, crashing all the time, not working properly and of all the the extra stuff it installs every time I have to reinstall plus the forced desktop shortcuts and navigator tweaks it creates.

  • Windows live mail groups the email but does not support filters on IMAP messages.
  • Outlook half supports colors but not grouping messages.
  • Thunderbird supports neither grouping nor color coding.

I know there are a lot of email clients but I don't want to download all of them.

So does anybody knows a good email client that supports this:

  1. Grouping of all the IMAP accounts under one "common inbox"
  2. Color-coding the emails in the "common inbox", according to the account!

I FOUND HOW THIS GROUPING IS CALLED. It is called a "combined inbox" or "unified inbox"

Here's a graphic example:

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example

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Can you please write the question! I can see you're not happy with what you've tried but I'm not sure what ALL your criteria is! – Dave Rook Aug 14 '12 at 7:57
Sorry, thought it was clear in the title, added an "official" question – NaturalBornCamper Aug 14 '12 at 13:47
Outlook does the above. You can colour email (category) based upon the account type. You say it doesn't do grouping - what do you mean? – Dave Rook Aug 14 '12 at 13:57
Outlook email coloring is crappy, you have to make two rules, one when the email is ONLY to you, and one when in are one of the TOs for every account. As for grouping, I added a graphic example, now my question cannot be any simpler, hope someone will have an answer. – NaturalBornCamper Aug 15 '12 at 22:08
Found the solution, thanks a lot to the moderator for closing the question by the way, really helpful. Thunderbird can do all of this if anybody is wondering, for unified folders, do: View >> Folders >> Unified. Then for colors with accounts, create as many tags as accounts, with different colors. Third, apply a filter on each account to add the tag. – NaturalBornCamper Aug 16 '12 at 1:11

closed as off topic by random♦ Aug 16 '12 at 0:39

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