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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / September 2007Eudora 8.0b1/ Penelope
. Now based on Mozilla Thunderbird. <http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7107/eudora> Anyone tried it yet. Experiences/ opinions?  SignatureRegards PeterG. > . Now based on Mozilla Thunderbird. > <http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7107/eudora> > > Anyone tried it yet. Experiences/ opinions? I was able to send and receive some mail. Didn't try importing my existing mail. But it was easy to crash. >> . Now based on Mozilla Thunderbird. >> <http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7107/eudora> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I was able to send and receive some mail. Didn't try importing my > existing mail. But it was easy to crash. That's good enough for me to hold back...thanks. SignatureRegards PeterG. > >> . Now based on Mozilla Thunderbird. > >> <http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7107/eudora> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > That's good enough for me to hold back...thanks. It is a new program. To name it b1 release is rather optimistic at this point - but it is good to see a progress. I did not find a reason to switch at that time - may be in a year or so. It will need hard work, to be better than Eudora... :-) >. Now based on Mozilla Thunderbird. ><http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7107/eudora> > >Anyone tried it yet. Experiences/ opinions? As far as I can tell, it's Thunderbird with some Eudora icons. If there's anything actually Eudora-ish about it, I didn't notice. > >. Now based on Mozilla Thunderbird. > ><http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7107/eudora> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > As far as I can tell, it's Thunderbird with some Eudora icons. If there's > anything actually Eudora-ish about it, I didn't notice. The Who column. Although I'm told there is a Thunderbird extension or plugin which does that, it doesn't work properly. I didn't test this beta (alpha, really) long enough to see whether the Who column worked properly. > [...] > > As far as I can tell, it's Thunderbird with some Eudora icons. If there's [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > beta (alpha, really) long enough to see whether the Who column worked > properly. The Who column is a BIG deal for me and one of the main reasons I haven't migrated to Thunderbird. I've organized my mailboxes assuming that the Who column works properly. You can have a lot fewer mailboxes because you can dump all the people in a category in the same mailbox. Then, sorting by "Who" will do the right thing (your sent messages are interleaved with the received messages). I sure hope Penelope stabilizes. In the meantime, Eudora is not broken. Richard > > [...] > > > As far as I can tell, it's Thunderbird with some Eudora icons. If [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > I sure hope Penelope stabilizes. In the meantime, Eudora is not > broken. Perhaps not for you. Eudora does not understand how to be an IMAP client. It gets the protocol reasonably right, but its behavior in handling mail is idiotic. Eudora used to have reasonable cryptographic support, but it was left to rot and was broken in version 6. TBird has those two issues dealt with, but unfortunately has a long list of other problems. Penelope fails to fix the real problems, and adds a glaze of "gee, this kinda looks like Eudora" that really makes very little real difference. SignatureNow where did I hide that website... > >. Now based on Mozilla Thunderbird. > ><http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7107/eudora> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > As far as I can tell, it's Thunderbird with some Eudora icons. If there's > anything actually Eudora-ish about it, I didn't notice. Alt-click is enabled for group selection -- alt-click on a subject to select all messages in that mailbox and move them adjacent to the message clicked. That's a Eudora feature I value, and I understand Thunderbird doesn't normally have it. SignatureMark > . Now based on Mozilla Thunderbird. > <http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7107/eudora> > > Anyone tried it yet. Experiences/ opinions? It's not a beta. It is a pre-alpha at best. All of Tbird's bugs on the Mac (which are MANY and BAD) are there, plus the Penelope extension has *worse* importers than stock TBird. A big disappointment. I think the focus of Penelope development has been quite wrong. One thing that keeps Eudora users on Eudora is its maturity: it works, it almost always works correctly, and where it is wrong it is wrong in well-known and predictable ways. Rather than making TBird behave well, Penelope worsens its stability, worsens its functionality, and makes it look a little more like stock Eudora graphically. SignatureNow where did I hide that website... > . Now based on Mozilla Thunderbird. > <http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7107/eudora> > > Anyone tried it yet. Experiences/ opinions? See Adam Engst's TidBITS review: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9151> (Adam, in addition to being the co-founder of TidBITS, the most excellent weekly mac newsletter, has often publicly declared himself to be a longtime Eudora user). Roberta SignatureRoberta Millstein usenet@spamaway.rlm.net Remove "spamaway" to reply -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > > . Now based on Mozilla Thunderbird. > > <http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7107/eudora> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Roberta Adam *is* a longtime Eudora user, and he's the primary reason that I began using it years ago after purchasing my first Mac. That was a Performa 6115CD I bought in 1995, and about a year later I bought his book called "The Internet Starter Kit" which included a Eudora Light installer. I've used Eudora ever since. And I continue to subscribe to TidBITS as well. = Steve = SignatureSteve W. Jackson Montgomery, Alabama |
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