Would it be possible to support typeahead for the keyboard shortcuts? Currently you have to watch claws *very* closely to make sure that it realy does what you type. This reduces confidence into the user interface. This is the major reason why I still prefer thunderbird.
I've never noticed any problem. Can you explain further where you have encountered this issue?
For example, there are 3 EMails in the message list (stored on a remote dovecot server, using IMAP). If I press [Delete] 3 times, then it removes the first and maybe the second EMail, but usually the 3rd keyboard shortcut is lost. If I wait 1 or 2 seconds between each key press, then this problem is much more unlikely to come up. Depends upon the size of the EMails, as it seems. This is just an example. The cursor keys and other shortcuts are unreliable for navigating the message display as well.