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Kevin Kofler wrote:
> KMail will have virtual folders in KDE 4.1 or 4.2 (this is being implemented in 
> Akonadi, and what parts of Akonadi will be in 4.1 is not decided yet), so 
> chances are that feature will come in Fedora 10 or 11. :-) It will also be very 
> powerful, integrating with Nepomuk tagging, so you can tag your mails and 
> filter by tags.
>
> http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3264
>
>   
Opinion alert:

    I have used kmail for a long time - its an almost wonderful tool. 
Sadly until it can actually speak html like the rest of the world it is 
my opinion that noone shud use it for anything save text email - if you 
find that useful like on here. Unless the developers get away from their 
personal anti-html crusade this what-cud-be-great client will fall by 
the wayside. I got very tired of having structured emails destroyed by 
kmail at work - never mind the complaints - or the inability to respond 
and put an 'approved' in a small  html table. This is convenient and the 
reality we live in - the kmail developers said save the mail - copy it 
to a word processor file -  attach it and send it. Yep - that makes 
sense.  Now if the latest version - indeed has full support for 
structured html mail it wud definitely be worth a second look.

    I have also used evo and thunderbird .. the only mailer which I have 
found comes close to being functional in the modern (business and 
personal) world is thunderbird.

    As of now - I use thunderbird  with enigmail and lightning. I use it 
for work and personal email use.

   As an aside - if - you want the ability to trivially switch to/try 
different clients without dealing with the variety of local storage 
issues - do what I do - never use the local storage. I run a local imap 
server (even on my laptop) and use that. I can now easily switch email 
clients with almost zero cost.

   g