Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:33:30 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone Using the New Free Mulberry Mail Client? Message-ID: <200609011733.31688.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <D40ECFA3C765EA1029E42D80@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <200609010018.23366.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <200609011341.46942.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <D40ECFA3C765EA1029E42D80@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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On Friday 01 September 2006 16:33, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Friday, September 01, 2006 13:41:45 +0100 RW > > <list-freebsd-2004@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.
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