For example, if you move a message from one folder to another in your desktop e-mail client (such as Outlook or Thunderbird), the message's label in Gmail will change to match--since Gmail doesn't ...

First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail clients, please CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mail software vendors.

There was a time when—if you were a serious email power-user—desktop email clients were the only way to go. Nowadays, robust web-based email applications like Gmail have completely changed things.

In professional use, though, Gmail isnt the most effective desktop email client, and it's probably worthwhile to find a more robust alternative.

With the upcoming version 102, users will enjoy several new features that come together to help bring the open-source email client into the modern age. Almost.

Despite rumors to the contrary, Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client will live.

Speaking of text email I will still continue to use the desktop email client that I have since 1998 (save a year that I used Thunderbird), and that is alpine (fka pine) combined with fetchmail.

If not all, but only some emails are synchronized & downloaded in your Outlook desktop client, enable this setting, on your Windows PC.