Anyone Using the New Free Mulberry Mail Client?

[RW]

On Friday 01 September 2006 16:33, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Friday, September 01, 2006 13:41:45 +0100 RW
>
> <list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 01 September 2006 08:30, Pete Slagle wrote:
> >> RW wrote:
> >> > Has anyone got this working?  If you just run the binary it opens and
> >> > can be be configured to read an imap  mailbox, but a lot of the error
> >> > and warning pop-up boxes are missing text and buttons. There are
> >> > probably other problems, but without the error messages it's hard to
> >> > say.
> >>
> >> Is this relevant?
> >
> > Not any more, but that wiki entry was created several hours after I
> > posted.
> >
> >> http://trac.mulberrymail.com/mulberry/wiki/linuxproblems
> >
> > That fixed the problems with text. I hope a proper package can be made
> > out of  this - having installed files and user data under ~/.mulberry
> > would be a pain  to maintain.
>
> I'm working on an update to the port, which I will submit to the
> maintainer.
>
> In the meantime, the problem is that you need to have the xml files in the
> Resources directory in a directory of the same name under your ~/.mulberry
> directory, but it's not created when you initiate Mulberry for the first
> time.
>
> You can easily correct this by creating a symlink:
>
> ls -s /usr/local/lib/mulberry/Resources/ ~/.mulberry/

The problem was that extracting Mulberry.tgz produces a hidden .mulberry 
directory in the current directory, which  should be in ~/  before running 
the binary. I extracted in a temporary location, failed to spot this hidden 
directory, and just moved the binary to ~/bin/. Removing ~/.mulberry and 
re-extracting in my home directory fixed the problem. BTW it actually 
contains  plugin and icon directories as well as resources.