Re: Is anybody working on Mulberry now?

On Tue Dec 19 2017 15:31:59 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Gleason
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Thunderbird evangelist.

Long time user of the least broken IMAP client I've ever tried (tried
most, including Mulberry). It has many warts, just far fewer than others.

> I do pay close attention to email clients and what they offer. Have
> done for a long time.

Your observations say otherwise...

> *>> ? Like the ability to customize visible columns in the message list=
,
>>> separately for each folder, with a large selection of choices.
>> ??? I've been doing that since.. .forever... natively.
>=20
> *Well, not forever, I think. =C2=A0I do distinctly remember those optio=
ns not
> being available a few years ago.

And I do distinctly remember having made extensive customizations to the
message pane for many, many years. At loeast since version 2.0.

So, much, MUCH longer than just a few years my friend.

> As I say, I prefer the function built in.

Me too... but Addons are one of the main reasons I like Thunderbird - I
can customize it to MY needs/wants.

> I personally have had situations where a needed plugin was no longer
> compatible.

Thats happened to me once or twice, but I soon learned a new and
sometimes better way to do the same thing.

> Lightening periodically going in and out of compatibility for
> example.  It will be back in a while, but in the meantime, I am out=20
> of luck.  Not acceptable.

The Release version of TB and Lightning has never done this. Of course,
if you play with pre-release versions, you will encounter the occasional
issue like this, but surely you know this.

> Yes, I use Daily because it has the latest features.

There is your problem. Complaining about OCCASIONAL breakage in a DAILY
build (some might call that ALPHA quality software) is plain asinine.

That said, the reality is Thunderbird rarely gets new features, mostly
you'll just benefit from early bug fixes that are too invasive to
backport to the release version.

> Like built in outgoing filters.

Limiting yourself to only native/built-in features is missing out on one
of the best things about Mozilla products.

That said, checking when Thunderbird added the ability to customize the
columns in the Message pane revealed that the native ability to filter
on outgoing/Sent messages was added way back in version 38 over 2 years a=
go.

> The Bat has no such requirement.  I use server side incoming
> filters, so messages go where I want them, and The Bat doesn't care
> what I want to use for a return address.

The email client isn't thr critical part of this, the SMTP SERVER is. A
properly configured SMTP server (postfix) will not allow you to
impersonate someone else (send from just any address), and there is
nothing 'The Bat' (or any other email client) can do about that.

> I simply tell it to use whatever return address I like and there are no
> unnecessary complications.
Oh - been doing that for many many years using the 'Virtual Identity'
Addon which simply lets me edit the From Header directly on the fly.