I\'m looking for the following features: Has a track record of several years GUI

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I'm looking for the following features:

Has a track record of several years
GUI access to email messages/threads/groups
GUI access to calender and meetings.
Stores email messages as separate files in straightforward (Standard?) non-proprietary format
Stores calender requests as separate files
Stores email threads/groups/... in directories
Can search existing email for strings in various fields
Can merge email files (as above) from another instance.

In particular, I'd like to be able to access the mail messages with arbitrary ad hoc code (e.g, Perl scripts).

Explanation / Answer

Personally I like Mozilla Thunderbird.

It has a good track record of long term development (and is Open source)
you have GUI to email messages/thread display is possible.
It doesn't have built in calendaring support but has a fairly mature extension - lightning
It stores email messages in the mbox format - which is well documented and easily accessibly via perl/python/whatever script you want. Not seperately but as a mailbox. ie this is the biggest hurdle for matching your search - and I can't think of any that match that and are cross platform
merging is possible though it's been a long time so the details may have changed since I last did any merging.
search is great (even if you have 20k IMAP messages it still responds pretty quick.
It runs on pretty much any OS (don't know if they have an android/iOS yet)

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