If mailwasher works for you, use it. Ten years ago I'd have downloaded and fiddled and tweaked all sorts of programs. If you look back here, there were posts with people removing mailwasher because it didn't work for them.

These days I don't have the time or patience to tweak and fiddle, and want something that works out of the box.

Litmus test for me is I've sent my elderly technologically incompetent parents instructions on how to download and use qurb (with a little assistance on the phone), and they have it working. I couldn't have done that with mailwasher.

before you ask, I have no connection with qurb.

Brendan