Mulberry4.0.8

CRAP! Cyrusoft filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Abandonware.
Code has been gathering dust for 9 years...

This email program is stuck in some awful interface hell from the days of MacOS X's public beta. I'm not entirely sure what makes it so unbearable, but suffice to say that using it is both confusing and unpleasant, from an interface perspective. Aside from the interface, however, this email program is lighting quick at IMAP interactions of all sorts, and is probably the bar none best IMAP email client out there, from an under-the-hood perspective. So, ugly on the outside, sweet well engineered IMAP goodness on the inside. It would be a KILLER Linux app, but it struggles with the Mac market for these reasons. But hey, give it a try, see what you think.

Thank you! It is wonderful to see Mulberry back from whichever netherworld it has been consigned to. I was hoping that someone would bring it back. The development was going in the right direction when they filed for bankruptcy. Particularly the calendaring options. The interface was slowly improving too. Now I hope the developer will be able to open it up to open source development. It would allow all of us to contribute to making one of the best IMAP clients even better. Hooray!

CRAP! Cyrusoft filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

CONS: 1) Anti-virus support, where is it? 2) Synchronization is horrid. There is no caching of local data for IMAP. In contrast to Mail.app it feels magnitudes slower. 3) Found myself reading the instruction book way to often for simple tasks and I am a developer myself. 4) Single threaded in many areas during syncing. You essentially twiddle thumbs quite often. 5) Local mail is kept in .mbox format. Mail.app uses single files similar to Qmail maildir format. Single files = no corrupt mailboxes and much faster response times. PROS: 1) nice gpg integration 2) nice GUI improvements 3) very configurable 4) powerful filtering capabilities

"I've been running it for 12 days now" It's OK, the software vendor is LYING just to single you out and make life miserable for you ... all of the rest of us are actually using super-secret tools to make the age-old features, explained in the manual and well-supported by 'support', actually look like they work ...

One of the most reliable email clients available today. I agree Mulberry is not the most pleasant to look at, but its abilities far outweigh its limited beauty.

Anonymous: good to see that you know what you are talking about...

I currently use Mulberry 2.2.1 and have found it the easiest, most stable and most reliable IMAP client to use over many years. The Eudora interface is a bit more attractive, but Mulberry's performance has been more reliable for me.

Powerful but comes with the highest lerning curver ever found on a GUI mail program. Overdocumented, but not that useful. Ugly (carbon, I guess) and quite slow. It is actually THAT bad designed (ergonomically speaking) that even with references, it is hard, very hard to do some advanced thing and, more than that, to know wether or not something had been implemented. On the positive side, it is the only one to work on all 3 major platform, to handle IMAP like a king (Eudora is pretty good to) and to support IMSP (yeahh). But it too high learning curve, plus bad ergonomics makes me doubt I will stay with it - I could swith back to Eudora (Mail definitively being too simple). If somebody can tell me where to find live support (webpages, forums...), I'd be glad you e-mail me.

Biggest piece of crap in the history of email software. WTF! Give it up. Netscape messenger, Outlook Express, or Eudora (in that order) are much better, and free.

The GUI is slow, redraws badly, and cluttered. Also, there seems to be no easy menu option for changing character encodings.

Certainly the most complete and best IMAP client, but I found the POP support to be a pleasant surprise -- in many ways works better than POP-only clients or 'classic' POP clients. Totally stable.

Just a fabulous mail program -- robust and full of features (many of them subtle or hidden). An absolute must for a Mac user who wants a consistent and reliable mail program on other systems (Win* , Solaris, Linux, etc.)

One of the best mail programs for any platform (and it supports them ALL). Now with POP support. It provides nice 'under the hood' views of your e-mail. It also threads messages which is a must in todays e-mail environment.