Re: Is anybody working on Mulberry now?

Tanstaafl,

> On 12/18/2017, 5:20:26 PM, Brian Reid <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I use Thunderbird now and it is awful, terrible, and bad. I long so much
>> for Mulberry.

> I've been using Thunderbird ever since I can remember. I've tried all of
> the alternatives over the years, but Thunderbird is by far the best,
> both as an IMAP client, and for one you want to be able to customize.

Choosing an email client is subjective and personal.  It also depends on your needs.
I always found Thunderbird severely lacking in features.  But that is changing with the latest
Daily Build.  I still find the interface clunky.  And recent versions of The Bat make it easy
to assign a default message format and return address to an entry in the address book.  That without 
having the return address attached to any email account in The Bat setup.  Important for me.

Superior quality from a single developer?  There comes a point where a project is beyond
the capability of a single person, in terms of the time they can commit if nothing else.  Since it
generally takes 10 years or so for email clients to mature, I suspect they fall into that category.

I can imagine what the Mulberry code file must look like.  Cyrus accrues no blame for being 
unable to continue with it.

One advantage Thunderbird has as a team effort is that work on it will not cease because a
single developer couldn't manage it any longer.  The Bat shares that advantage too.

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Gleason