macfidelity

Wer wie ich schon lange Thunderbird unter Mac OS X als Default-Mail-Client verwendet wird sich sicher gefragt haben: lebt das Projekt noch ?

Gerade im Vergleich zum großen Bruder Firefox wirkt das Projekt immer leicht Stiefmüttlicher behandelt.

Thunderbird 2 Ist-Stand:

Im Kern bin ich mit Thunderbird absolut zufrieden, da dieser zumindest inkl. dem Lightning Plugin eigentlich fast alles mit sich bringt was man sich so in einem Mail-Client wünscht.

• Verwaltung mehrere Mail-Accounts
• User-Aliase (Identitäten)
• Kalender Funktion
• Addressbuch

Was als Mac-User immer etwas sauer aufstößt ist die fehlende Kompatibilität mit dem Mac OS X Adressbuch. Ich habe diesen Aspekt wie wohl viele andere auch schon vor geraumer Zeit auf der Mailingliste angesprochen und damals wurde wohl schon daran gearbeitet, zumindest wenn man die spärlichen Tickets zu diesem Thema verfolgte.

Da mich heute ein Bekannter auf Thunderbird angesprochen hatte, war es mal an der Zeit diese Baustelle wieder aufzureißen und sich den aktuellen Ist-Stand im Bezug auf die entwicklung von Thunderbird 3 vorzunehmen.

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Ein weiterer bis dato ungepatcher Bug findet sich in Mail.app

Problembeschreibung:

Erhält man eine Mail mit Anhang und will diese mittels Save as inkl. Anhang in Mail.app unter Mac OS X 10.5 abspeichern , wird der Mailtext zwar abgelegt, der Anhang wird jedoch vergessen.

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Maybe i am not the usual Mac-User….i guess i am really not. With my switch from 10.4 to 10.5   i tried Mail.app once again.

Impressions after some weeks:

• Strange folder visualization (contra Mail.app)
• Editing my sub-folders-structur was a mess with Mail.app (contra Mail.app)
• No real calendar solution inside the Mail-Client (contra Mail.app)

So finally back to Thunderbird as it offers:

• hundreds of plugins & extensions
• works on all platforms

with the switch from 10.4 to 10.5 i have changed my mail-client from thunderbird back to mail.app

basicly as i wasn’t 100% happy with thunderbird and on the other hand to give mail.app another chance.

Weeks later….not really happy with mail.app

Lets see what Correo brings….

Introducing Correo, a new open-source mail client for Mac OS X. Correo blends technology from two popular Mozilla projects, Camino and Thunderbird, to create a polished native Macintosh application.

There are many planned features for the mail client, including plugin capability (to allow development of extensions such as PDA synchronization), tabbed window interface, address book support, keychain access, and various other to-be-determined features.

About Mulberry:

Mulberry started off life as a software project that was really meant to help the author learn more about the internet and internet protocols used for email. However, it became much more than that and garnered support from a small (in internet terms) group of users and institutions many of whom relied on the product as their primary email tool.

Whilst it started as only an IMAP client and only on Mac OS, it has grown to cover not only other email protocols, but also calendaring and scheduling and is available on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux systems.

Adherence to standards is a key belief on the part of the developers, and active participation in the Internet Engineering Task Force and the standards process is an important aspect.

Ultimately the failure of the original company (for a whole host of reasons) was really a reflection of the fact that Mulberry had failed to grow a market share that could sustain the company in a market where free clients (of varying quality) are readily available.

Now Mulberry itself is free, though its future is still cloudy in terms of whether development will advance or not…

Quote from the project page:

The full code for Mulberry (Mac OS X, Windows and Linux) is now available as open source under an Apache 2 License. Full details available on the wiki.

The link to the trac-system

So lets wait for the first new releases of that client….