Re: Devin's effort

Tanstaafl <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Apr 2015 06:37:12 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mulberry.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/20/2015 5:13 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]> wrote:
> Other things I like about Mulberry:
> 
> a) The outgoing local SMTP queue for accounts -> When I send an email, 
> Mulberry puts it into its own outgoing queue, in case you are offline, or 
> there are intermittent connection issues.  While I work from home with a 
> generally solid internet connection, there are times the connection has 
> been severed (literally by some ass cutting the fiber optics of my ISP), 
> and having Mulberry have its own outgoing SMTP queue has been invaluable.

So... Mulberry has its own mini-smtp server?? That is really interesting
too.

> b) Ability to directly write SIEVE rules with cyrus IMAP servers.  When I 
> was working at my last job, we used cyrus IMAPD, and the ability to upload 
> my own rule sets into it directly from Mulberry was invaluable.

You've been able to do this with Thunderbird for a long time with the
Sieve Addon:

https://github.com/thsmi/sieve

It isn't perfect, but it works, and the dev is reasonably responsive (or
at least he has been in the past) to bug reports...