[MlMt] Comments on migrating from Mulberry (and Thunderbird)

[Eric Sharakan]

On 25 Sep 2020, at 5:05, Raza Rizvi wrote:

> Hello all, 1st post and a new user on day 4 of the trial.
>
> Very long term Mulberry/MulberryMail user on Windows then OSX, but for 
> the past 9 months dual-running with Thunderbird because the inability 
> of Mulberry to support 64bit OSX meant I knew I had to transition at 
> some point when I was forced to upgrade the OS.
>
> Thunderbird, whilst tweakable, is simply too slow and cumbersome so I 
> went hunting mail clients. MailMate is the only one making the grade 
> (no surprise there).
>
> Mostly I can have my way of working but there are a couple of oddities 
> or things maybe I haven’t quite got right yet that you can help with 
> (mostly this is emulating things Mulberry was capable of doing):
>
> 1. I cannot get MailMate to move to the next message, despite use of 
> MmMessagesOutlineMoveStrategy - is it broken?
> 2. I have been using MmDefaultBccHeader but is there an equivalent for 
> the Cc header?
> 3. I have MmDeleteBehavior -string "markAsDeleted" but is there an 
> Expunge on disconnect option somewhere? I do it manually using the 
> Experimental 2.0 prefs checkbox notes.

Here are two options I know of:

- There's an "Expunge" toolbar button you can add; look at 
View->Customize Toolbar
- You can set a hotkey to perform "expungeDeletedMessages:;" (I use 
'x').  See the manual for how to add custom keybindings.

Both of these are available without setting the "Experimental 2.0 
Features" checkbox.

-Eric

> 4. Can you specify just an SMTP server with its own AUTH values (the 
> use case is when I send mails from a particular address, which is 
> itself a role address - support@ - , that I want to go through a 
> certain mail server so DKIM/SPF requirements are met)?
> 5. Sometimes when I print I get a sheet with just the normal mail 
> headers but no body content
> 6. Can you print a message which has blocked images and exclude the 
> very large X placeholders for the image - I’d like to save paper!
>
>
> Some final comments for other people who might make the switch:
>
> I miss tabs per account but it hasn’t taken long to stop fretting 
> about it.
>
> https://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672/tickets/81-archiving-to-local-folders 
> is a great way of getting round the lack of local mail folders.
>
> https://vxlabs.com/2019/08/25/format-flowed-with-long-lines/ means you 
> know you are in the right, even if Gmail users say your mails look 
> odd!
>
> Redirection and changing the subject line is possible as two separate 
> options which might be able to be stitched together using a mail 
> binding (for my usual case of sending wayward mails back into a 
> ticketing system)
>
> Thanks for bearing with me, and I look forward to fully making the 
> switch.
>
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