Re: Mulberry-discuss Digest, Vol 86, Issue 4

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> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 08:43:58 -0400
> From: Tanstaafl <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: [Mulberry-discuss] Devin's effort
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> 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.
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> ? You couldn't get Thunderbird to install on windows 7?

Yes, really.  I have no idea why, but Thunderbird was shiny and tempting so I didn't put a lot of effort into tracking it down.  Mulberry installed flawlessly this try.  

>> Further, TB is abandonware as well.
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> Ummm... no, it isn't, not even close. Please do not spread FUD.
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> 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.

You are quite right and the latest efforts are especially heartening, though it did really look bleak there.  I am particularly intrigued by beta 38's support for Maildir, despite having some weird problems with Maildir server-side at the moment, as it might enable a relatively light stack to allow the client to work in local mode only and background synchronize with the server.

Mulberry remains my favorite interface.  I like that it does email really well and doesn't try to do much else.   Given how long it has been since an update, it very impressive how many devoted adherents remain.