Mulberry is an

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marketed by Cyrusoft from approximately 1995 to 2005. On October 1, 2005, Cyrusoft International, Inc./ISAMET, declared

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bankruptcy and went out of business. In August 2006, rights to the

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were acquired by

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, the original author. Originally developed for the

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, versions now exist for that platform as well as

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and

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using the

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. Mulberry's strengths include strict compliance with Internet standards such as

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, IMSP, ACAP, and

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, a unique GUI for defining

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scripts and support for IMAP disconnected operation. As of August 20, 2006, with version 4.0.5, Mulberry was made available at no cost, but remained proprietary. The most recent version, 4.0.8, was released for Macintosh (as a Universal Binary), Windows, and Linux on February 23, 2007. However, Cyrus Daboo made Mulberry available as

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on all three platforms on November 21, 2007, under the terms of the

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2.0.Mulberry Email client
on macintoshgarden

External links

*
Mulberry Guide
at the

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References

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