Reviews of Mulberry for Windows

1. 
   brusco

   Reviewing 4.0.6b (Dec 10, 2006)

   feature set is ok. that gui has to change. seriously.
   
   To the author, read this: http://catb.org/esr/writ...taoup/html/ch11s01.html
2. 
   gawd21

   Reviewing 4.0 Alpha 7 (Mar 3, 2005)

   And why would you pay for this? They need to give us a good reason for that.
3. 
   DigitalSin

   Reviewing 4.0 Alpha 5 (Feb 24, 2005)

   Definitely has some promise. I use POP3 and it seemed to work fine. However, and as described in other comments, the interface just doesn't flow. One example: in order to import addresses, I opened Address Book window and clicked Import, but got a message to the tune of "you must have an address book open and on top to import". Why not just let me choose which address book and import that way? Not user friendly.
   
   Also, I did not see any autocomplete functionality when entering email addresses in a new message. A messagebox pops up when new mail comes. You can't minimize to the system tray. The whole "expunge" idea for POP3 is not good. Delete means delete. I shouldn't have to delete twice.
   
   Maybe there are some hidden preferences for all these things, but when I click Preferences in shows me prefs for just the email account. I couldn't find any program preferences.
   
   Anyway, I did like the actual look of the application. The icons are nice and all the window panes are resizable. If they could just improve the "feel" of it I would definitely try this one again.
4. 
   MoeRL

   Reviewing 4.0 Alpha 1 (Dec 4, 2004)

   There is absolutely no doubt that this is BY FAR the most powerful client for the IMAP protocol in the world. Nothing else comes even close ;). Not even the most powerful clients, like The Bat! or PocoMail :).
   However, I too find that the option/preferences dialogs/windows and the interface are a couple of levels below intuitive, to say the least. When I first set it up I had the feeling I needed a PHD in Mulberry SETUP to figure things out. It's hard to give specific examples, but it's just not intuitive and quite far from easy to grasp from scratch.
   Luckily, I found out that, even while Mulberry's website is nothing short of hideous, it is absolutely LOADED with useful information, references to documentation, newsgroups, guides, and other helpful information. What I'm going to study next in order to find out more about the client's features is the following: http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/support/docs.html
   That link sure looks like the ticket to understanding this extremely powerful IMAP client better. It handles POP too, so it's not by any means an IMAP exclusive, but I would personally recommend it to anybody who is exclusively using the IMAP protocol for their email needs, because Mulberry is the only client on earth that makes use of just about EVERYTHING the IMAP protocol has to offer, and that, trust me, is more than you think ;).
   
   So long,
   
   MoeRL
5. 
   allsiante

   Reviewing 4.0 Alpha 1 (Oct 24, 2004)

   This works ok, that's why the 4 stars. But you really need to take some GUI basics classes. This stuff looks plain lame sh*t.

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