--On 26 January 2010 10:59:22 -0700 LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
On 26-Jan-10 06:08, John C. Welch wrote:
Also, if someone knows of a better, in terms of standard support, IMAP
client than mulberry, please share, I'd love to check it out, but for
now, if you want an example of how to do IMAP right, Mulberry is still
the exemplar.
I've been looking at Mulberry and I can say that in terms of designing a
UI and most especially in terms of handling preferences ther are few mail
clients I've seen that are worse that Mulberry.
Yes, you're dead right. Its UI is the worst thing about it. But that's
nothing to do with "standard support".
Its IMAP interface is great. It supports IMAP features that others don't,
like setting mailbox ACLs, for example, server side searching and
threading.
It is missing a few of the newer IMAP extensions, because it hasn't had
much (any?) dev effort recently. But what it does support, it supports
correctly and comprehensively. And, I'd bet that it still supports more
IMAP extensions than Apple Mail or Thunderbird. Notably, it's missing IDLE
support, though.
How bad is it? I actually had to search the web to find out how to create
mutliple accounts.
It also does not seem to have a mechanism (that I've found) to
automatically scan the IMAP tree for oll fodlers with new messages. This
is so basic that I am sure it is in there somwhere, but the preference
settings make the old OS 9 Eudora prefs look like a paragon of good
dedsign.
Yes, it does. But, once again, nobody claims the user interface is good,
just the IMAP (and SMTP and POP) support. Part of the evidence is that the
author's name can be found in many RFCs.
--
Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
01273-873148 x3148
For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/
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