🚀 go-pugleaf

Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> said:
>"David Cantrell" <usenet@barnyard.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'm using Thunderbird for my mail - although not news - and have been
>> for a few weeks now., ever since Mulberry broke on me and I couldn't
>On Linux, Mulberry used to open a socket somewhere in /tmp, and if it was
>still there when you restarted Mulberry (say Mulberry crashed) it would
>mysteriously sit there for ever, spinning. Removing the errant socket fixed
>things. 

Thanks, but that's not it.  What happened was that I, like an idiot,
rm -rf'd my home directory - including my mailboxes - on the mail
server by mistake.  Of course, I had good backups <smug> and could
restore from them, but the backups were a few hours out of date.  This
hopelessly confused Mulberry and it refused to play nicely with the
restored mailboxes.  Which, I suppose, is fair enough.  So I hunted
down all Mulberry's files, deleted them, reinstalled - and couldn't
for the life of me figure out how to get the damned thing to behave
properly.  It was certainly connecting to the server and retrieving
messages, just not retrieving the right ones and storing them in the
right place.  Mulberry's config was a bit opaque first time round, and
poorly documented too, and this time I just didn't have the patience
to hunt through all the menus like a drooling GUI-monkey.  So I
deleted it again and Cyrus won't be getting any upgrade money from me
in the future.

Thunderbird does disconnected IMAP, which is what I wanted Mulberry
for in the first place, and while its implementation isn't as good as
Cyrus's, it does the job and more importantly, it Just Worked.

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David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david