Re: Devin's effort

On 4/20/2015 11:53 AM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]> wrote:
> --On Monday, April 20, 2015 8:11 AM -0400 Tanstaafl 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So... I'm very curious what you (and the other list participants here)
>> consider some of the most appealing features of Mulberry over other IMAP
>> clients you/they have used.
> 
> The top things that come to my mind are:
> 
> a) Colorization of the state of a folder.  By default, folders with unread 
> mail, where the folder itself has not yet been opened, are a bright red. 
> Folders with unread mail, but have been opened since the mail was received, 
> are pink.  Currently open folders are green

Sounds cool... and I don't think TB has even an Addon that does
precisely this, although I'm sure it could easily be done with one.
There are a few that go part way there (Color Folders and Account
colors) though, but they don't appear to have rules/styles that can be
applied on the fly. I did find some references to accomplishing this by
manually adding some code to the userChrome file, but that can get hacky
for most...

So, that's definitely one for Mulberry... ;)

> b) The "New messages" hotlink, that lets me just track which folders across 
> all of my accounts have unread mail, so I don't have to expand my 
> many-levels-deep folders across numerous accounts just to track what 
> folders I have unread mail in.

TB has its native 'View > Folders' choices (Unread being one of them),
and it definitely works across the multiple accounts, but you can also
create an unlimited number of 'Virtual' folders (basically, a folder
that displays all messages that fulfill a specified Search criteria,
which can span )... simple Virtual folder (TB has great support for
these) would work for this - and there is also the excellent
QuickFolders Addon does some cool stuff too.

> c) Tabs for different email folders (which apparently TB now supports), 
> although I haven't looked to see how it compares to Mulberry.

Yeah, it definitely does Tabs (and remembers them across sessions, if
you like keeping certain ones open all the time).

Personally, I really dislike tabs in my mail client. the only one I
haven't been able to completely get rid of is the Calendar, but that is
actually ok in a Tab...

Thanks Quanah, I'm actually looking forward to giving Mulberry a spin...