Re: Devin's effort

Mulberry Developers,

Maybe the point was that it sure would be nice to get a new release of
Mulberry with fixes mentioned here for things like memory leaks, etc.  Please oh
please.  Woncha, whydoncha?

> 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


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 Gleason