Re: Mulberry - the future?

I'm keeping an eye on trojita ( http://trojita.flaska.net ) but it's rather 
limited right now (at least it's moving)

David Lang

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Brian Reid wrote:

> I still use Mulberry. On a Mac. Every now and then I try out other 
> alternatives and then sigh and realize that there is nothing there that can 
> do what Mulberry can do.
>
> The Mail.app on Mavericks is a huge step backwards. The Mail.app on Snow 
> Leopard could do much of what I need, but not quite all. It was so 
> disappointing to see the direction they are going in.
>
> I'd rather use pencil and paper and stamps and envelopes than Outlook. I've 
> given up waiting for the fabled "next generation Eudora" whose name I can 
> never quite remember. Thunderbird is too primitive. Nothing else looks real. 
> I'm really tempted to write shell scripts that use the IMAPtools library, 
> which is excellent.
>
> Mulberry's use of IMAP is pitch-perfect, and I use it for a lot of server 
> maintenance tasks that no other mailer could come close to doing. That's why 
> I've been investigating IMAPtools. They will at least let me do IMAP server 
> maintenance tasks if Mulberry dies without an heir.
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