Re: OT: Eudora a good alternative to Thunderbird?

John Devereux wrote:

Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


Joerg wrote:


Hello Folks,

After the umpteenth freeze where I can't get any email to the laptop
I've had it with Thunderbird. Mozilla was good and a lot less buggy
but it ain't now more, only the huge SeaMonkey version.

Eudora now says on the site that the no-nagware version (paid) is no
longer being sold. Does this mean Eudora may be going away?


Ok guys, found it out. There was an older Norton version on there,
hasn't been update since 2006 so it hasn't changed. Beats me how that
could suddenly interfere. It had to actually be hosed off the
harddrive in its entirety, then a reboot, before Thunderbird would
work.


Good old norton - you can always rely on it to stuff up your machine.

AV programs are incredibly intrusive. I suppose they have to be. They
probably intercept every operation on a file or network packet.


What really irks me about them is that they are notoriously disobedient. When you turn a firewall function off I expect it to be OFF. It wasn't. McAfee on another PC is the same. It's going to be outta here one of these days but first I have to find something better. Tried out AVG but that has a rather huge footprint, slows things down too much. Anyone know about the AOL version? Or does MS provide something good enough?

Browsers have some similar "not so nice" traits. For example, all of the ones I've ever used (except Mosaic!) do not offer much authority over the STOP button. When that is pressed I expect a web transfer to terminate this instant. Nope, don't work. Often it has to be CTRL-ALT-DEL, works every single time. IMHO Mosaic was the best browser ever, to this day unsurpassed in robustness and user authority.

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Regards, Joerg

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