Re: Mulberry gone, now what?

kael <kael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote:
> > As you may have seen from http://www.mulberrymail.com/ ISAMET has gone
> > bankrupt. So now what is left to be a decent Win32 IMAP GUI client?
>
> Polymer, currently in development, is a cross-plateform ACAP/IMAP GUI
> client - <http://dave.cridland.net/acap/polymer.html> ; it's probably
> the third real IMAP client, after Pine and Mulberry (okay, I'm missing
> Cone and Mutt).
>
.... and suffers from the same problem as virtually every other IMAP
client out there - it works best with a limited range of IMAP servers.

Personally I think this is the fundamental flaw in IMAP, it's not
tightly enough specified so IMAP servers vary quite a lot with the
result that it's well nigh impossible to write an IMAP client that
works well with them all.

I use mutt and, while it is a reasonably functional IMAP client, I
find that it is so much pleasanter to use with local mail files I just
about never use mutt with IMAP.

I get similar capability to IMAP by running mutt remotely (via ssh) so
I can see and manage the same mail folders etc. wherever I am working
from.

--
Chris Green

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