Re: Devin's effort

On Tue Apr 14 22:53:49, David Gessell wrote:
> I am just moving back to Mulberry after a few years on Thunderbird
> when I couldn't get it to install on Win 7.  It seems to work fine
> now.  It is like coming home: I used Mulberry for many years and my
> preferences were still floating around and worked fine.

? You couldn't get Thunderbird to install on windows 7?

We've been using Thunderbird in our 60+ user environment since about
version 0.8, and never had a problem installing any version on any
version of Windows, 7 works like a champ.

> Further, TB is abandonware as well.

Ummm... no, it isn't, not even close. Please do not spread FUD.

I was worried about this when Mozilla announced that it was pulling most
of its resources (they still provide a ton of infrastructure resources,
and that is not likely to change), but the reality is, Thunderbird
development seems to be thriving. There are a ton of old bugs finally
being worked on, and as far as I'm concerned, the change was a good thing.

> And Mulberry remains more modern and far more feature-complete than
> Claws and Sylpheed.

Maybe so, but being one who loves to investigate new mail clients, and
prompted by your email thread on the dovecot list wherein in in one of
your messages mentioned Mulberry, I decided to check it out again (been
many many years since I looked at it last).

I was really interested at first, and signed up for this list - then
while waiting on confirmations, read some of the most recent archives,
and was sad to see the thread(s) talking about the fact that it appears
that Mulberry is not long for this world.

For that reason I'm not sure why you would choose to move back to
something that looks like is on critical life-support, and not long for
this world? Of course you are free to do whatever you like, but
personally, I don't change mail clients (or other fundamental software I
use on a day to day basis) lightly...

Or maybe I'm mis-reading those emails - some even coming from Devin, who
appears to be the primary dev for Mulberry (is that right?)...

Charles