But at the end of the day, it's another program you need to keep updated, and adds another surface attack vector to your system. It also still receives frequent security updates, which is good because of the inherent insecurity associated with email in general. It also supports a myriad of plugins (akin to Firefox) that add extra capabilities. But if you are just using email for basic send/receive, then sure, it works great. Using a 3rd party email client such as Thunderbird or Outlook strips you of those integrations. Hangouts, Chat, Drive, Calendar, Tasks, and Keep are all accessible through the Gmail web interface. Google has integrated a lot of it's other services into the Gmail web interface, which is nice if you use those services. using an email providers web client, especially when it comes to Gmail. a program used to send/receive/read your emails), but it does have drawbacks vs. Thunderbird is OK for just a basic email client (i.e. This is an excellent feature for those who have lots of email load and it works great.
Speaking of sub-folders, you can also set up automatic filters to sort email into its respective destination sub-folder automatically (so you don't have to drag it over manually). I recommend using sub-folders for various topics/senders/etc. This might not be Thunderbird's fault so much as the server's fault, not sure. One drawback is that if you've got more than, say, 2,000 emails in your inbox, Thunderbird can have difficulty completing its fetch operation for new email.
Mine checks six different email addresses concurrently. Thunderbird can be set to connect to Gmail and other web-mail accounts as well as private domain email services. I've always liked it much better for managing email than Microsoft Outlook, though Outlook has some task/calendar features that Thunderbird lacked up until recently (and maybe still does partially).
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