Jumping ship

For the past few years I've been using Kmail under Gnome.   I just installed 
the 'latest' versions with Debian Squeeze.   On starting kmail from the 
command line (ssh'd in a terminal window from my laptop, that's why) I noticed 
a lot of messages about akonadi.   Googling showed it's some sort of system-
wide database that Kmail2 uses.   A frantic and furious search showed that my 
Maildir files are all still there.    So if Kmail 1.13 still uses Maildir why's 
it loading Akonadi?

Be that as it may, at some point Debian Stable will (presumably) include 
Kmail2 at which point all my mailfiles will get converted to some cryptic 
format that nothing else can read.   So I should switch to something else 
first.

Question is, what?    Which current mailreaders use Maildir?
I tried Balsa but it felt a bit clunky and I couldn't persuade it to send 
messages so I reverted to Kmail for now.
Evolution I think uses Mbox.    Apparently so does Thunderbird.   I'm not so 
keen on ginormous files even if they are in ASCII.     All it takes is one 
corrupt read or write or delete and there goes all your messages.

Claws-mail apparently uses a text-based file-based relative of Maildir called 
MH.    I might have to try that.   (From Wikipedia on MH:  "MH follows the 
Unix philosophy of write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write 
programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that 
is a universal interface (Doug McIlroy)."   My thoughts exactly.)

Any others?    I don't need or want a calendar, or an appointments book, or an 
organiser, I just want a mailreader/writer.    Kmail 1.13 is fine.   (Can you 
hear me, KDE?   Thought not).

cr

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