[Gllug] Re: [Gllug]thoughts on mulberry client

[Steve Nicholson]

Thanks for your reply Dave, much appreciated.
Have avoided Evolution so far since it seems a bit like bloatware like Outlook and only recently reached V1.  I waste enough time investigating software and really try to avoid anything that isn't stable.  Once I've finished my current project I'll put a little time into playing with Evolution and Mulberry as I want to make the commitment to move away from Outlook sooner rather than latter.

Does Evolution make it simple to have your from address automatically set depending on who the email was originally addressed to? e.g. I have a message come in to sales at cyclery.com when I reply I want my sending address to be sales at cyclery.com or steve at cyclery.com not steve at kiwibum.com or whatever account it actually comes in on.  I have a lot of different hats and find it frustrating/time consuming to have to select the correct one each time I send a message and set up an account for each one I want to send from.  I also often select the wrong address:).

thanks
Steve.

On 18 Oct 2002 00:03:09 +0100 Dave Cridland wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 14:32, Steve Nicholson wrote:
> > from the "Alternative e-mail client for those poor Windows users" thread
> > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:23:15 +0100 Thom May wrote:
> > > Mulberry.
> > > http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/
> > > It's try for 30 days ware, but it is probably one of the better imap
> > > maillers on the planet.
> > 
> > Looks interesting. Any on this list using it on Linux/unix?  I think I remember seeing something about it supporting sieve on imap servers.  Is this correct?  Meaning it makes it easier to write sieve scripts/filters and put them on the server.
> 
> I played with it on various, so in the absence of anyone else replying:
> 
> Yes, it does SIEVE, but unfortunately doesn't support any way of getting
> them onto the server that I've found. It just dumps them onto the local
> disk, which is not so good. It will, however, write the scripts
> reasonably well, but personally I find it easier to write them by hand.
> 
> Equally, it does ACAP, in a manner of speaking. But since the only other
> ACAP aware client is Eudora, which is read-only, this is probably quite
> good support.
> 
> > What's it like from a keyboard users point of view?  I find GUI useful for times when I want to do something new or not done often but prefer using key commands for repetitive stuff.  Can key commands be changed to my liking?  I'm still to delve into Mutt due to the concern of lost time setting it up and learning all the bits I need to know.
> 
> Pass. Didn't play with it for long enough.
> 
> > Does it do threaded views?
> 
> Yes, from what I remember. Bear in mind that the threading itself is
> usually done by the IMAP server, and the algorithms the server uses can
> be thrown (and often are, on this list).
> 
> > I'm after the imap support, really want to get away from Outlook, trying sylpheed-claws but not convinced on it (like the spell checking feature).  My test at the moment is if I can easily read my morning mail while eating breakfast.  Not having to put my serial bowl down to make changes or too many keystrokes to quickly skim through everything is important you know.
> 
> On Linux, I'm using Evolution for IMAP. I'm not convinced by
> sylpheed-claws either, as yet.
> 
> Evolution does, at least, allow me to flick through my emails in a
> single folder very quickly on the keyboard, and it handles the threading
> nicely.
> 
> However, it's not totally compliant with IMAP[1], and it does have a
> nasty habit of crashing if some other IMAP client changes anything on
> the server - including reading an email.
> 
> Of course, as mentioned previously on this very list, I run IMAP mainly
> so I needn't use the same client all the time, and so if a client does
> crash, I'm unlikely to lose email because of it, so I'm willing to put
> up with Evolution for the time being.


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