Hi Sebastian! I just can (and so I will) believe your statements about mulberry, because it's dead and my users and I cannot get or use it legally anywhere. So it has disqualified itself. Sadly, I want to add. I heared a lot good things about this one, and I could imagine that this one could have become my alternative to thunderbird. Best, Daniel Sebastian Hagedorn schrieb: > Hi, > > let me start by saying that I'm basically always on high-speed Internet > connections and keep my mailboxes relatively small. So I haven't had bad > experiences with Thunderbird in that regard. I still don't use it, but > that's not the issue here. > > -- Daniel Eckl <deckl@xxxxxxxx> is rumored to have mumbled on 26. Juli > 2006 21:31:40 +0200 regarding Re: performance issue (imap spool on san): > >> In a graphical client you want to be able to scroll through your whole >> message list without any delay. So I think there is no other chance but >> caching all header information of a folder. On low bandwith situations >> it seems to be impossible for me to do this on demand only. > > Well, you don't know Mulberry then. It has a GUI and is very adaptable > to any kind of network situation and it doesn't cache anything! You do > have to tweak it, however. It doesn't auto-configure, but there are > *many* settings to play around with. Obviously that's both a blessing > and a curse. > >> I was searching for a full featured graphical IMAP client for a long >> time and tried everything and I have to say: Not only is thunderbird an >> IMAP client, it is the best graphical IMAP client I could find in the >> whole Linux and Windows world. > > Unfortunately that's not saying much ... it's just too bad that the only > decent IMAP GUI client isn't developed further. I have hopes for > Thunderbird 2, but I have a feeling that I will continue to use Mulberry > for a long time ... > -- > Sebastian Hagedorn - RZKR-R1 (Flachbau), Zi. 18, Robert-Koch-Str. 10 > Zentrum für angewandte Informatik - Universitätsweiter Service RRZK > Universität zu Köln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-478-5587 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html