Re: Mulberry - the future?

I've been using Mulberry every since I switched to it as the mail client
and Opera as the web browser when I could no longer trust Netscape's
pre Mozilla bundle to properly display pages, i.e. a LONG time ago.  I
paid for a copy of both Mulberry and Opera long before they became free.

I'll keep using Mulberry until I can no longer get it to work on my
system, or it doesn't do something I need.  I hope that's a long time
from now, but it may eventually be a dead horse.  I'm starting to consider
Chrome since neither IE11 or Opera will handle the large number of tabs I
like to operate with these days.

nothing lasts forever, especially in electronics :(


--On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 4:14 PM +0000 Andy Clews 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi (if anyone's there...)
>
> I've just seen Ferdinand von Prondzynski's email (Aug 13 2013) to this
> list, enquiring about the future of Mulberry.  Just thought I'd add my
> penny's worth.
>
> Mulberry had been in use at my institution (University of Sussex, UK) for
> many years (using an IMSP server for preferences and address books), and
> rather like Marmite (other yeast-extract products are available :-) some
> people loved it, some hated it, and many more merely tolerated it.   We
> built up a strong local support resource for it, and wrote many useful
> FAQs for it (see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/faqbrowse?cat_id=17
> while you still can).   We used it while it was commercial, licensed
> software, and continued to use it for years after it became free and open
> source.
>
> Although it was a very complete and robust email client, Mulberry is "of
> its day" and no longer meets my institution's needs.  In Spring 2011 we
> moved to MS Exchange, and Outlook.   Some people love it, some hate it,
> some merely tolerate it... but Outlook and Exchange are undoubtedly
> providing us with a more complete email and calendaring facility, even
> though its support and management can be a nightmare.   Mulberry will
> work with Exchange IMAP, but Exchange doesn't support the IMAP extensions
> used by Mulberry, so the loss of some very useful features, combined with
> a shift of support resources, meant its days were numbered here.
>
> We finally switched off our ageing, slow IMSP server at the end of 2013,
> and apart from one or two local installations of Mulberry (i.e. using
> locally-stored preferences etc), the client is now, sadly, more or less
> dead at my institution.
>
> Congratulations and thanks to Cyrus Daboo for what was a fine piece of
> software, that in its day was arguably the best email application around.
>
> --
> Andy Clews
> Client Services Group,         University of Sussex IT Services