Re: OT: Eudora a good alternative to Thunderbird?

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:19:09 -0700, JosephKK
<joseph_barrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Joerg notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx posted to
sci.electronics.design:

David Brown wrote:

Joerg wrote:

Ecnerwal wrote:

In article <zibPi.1418$Pv2.1280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


AFAIK no spam filter and that's really important these days.


Your mail service provider might provide some - Mine used to
provide a great mode where they would flag stuff they thought was
spam, and send it all downstream where I could filter it. Now
it's either no filtering, or filtering on their system - they
dumbed it down. Still, I find that a bunch of positive filters
(pull off mail from real people you commonly email) and negative
filters (the various popular spam words/misspellings) does a
pretty good job on spam. I've used Eudora for decades, and never
got into the paid version with spam filter (nor the ad version
until after they stopped running ads, though it still brings up
an annoying gray square).

Can't do that, I get mail from several servers into one.

You can use a local spam filter pop3 proxy - popfile is, I believe,
one
of the most popular. I used it before I started using spamassasin
on our server.

http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

If you have a Linux box available, I'd recommend setting up a
proper mail server - dovecot is easy, and you can use fetchmail to
collect
email from a variety of pop3 boxes. That way you have your email
on a secure system, available from any email client you want on any
PC (via
IMAP). When your client OS goes bonkers, or you find a new email
program you like, or want to access the same email from a different
machine, you have no problem.

Release (if it ever happens) of the open source equivalent seems
to be glacial.

Won't do much good if it then just sits there or gets folded into
Thunderbird.

I doubt if Eudora will get merged with Thunderbird, but I also
doubt
that it will see much progress as open source. You can't expect a
development community to form around a product just by posting a
link to the code on your website - Qualcomm are going to have to
work much
harder if they want to get some developer momentum behind it. At
the moment, most people interested in working with open source
email programs are looking at Thunderbird, Evolution, or KMail -
developers will need a good reason to start working with Eudora.

What I've seen of spam filters on other people's systems, and
when exploring other mailers and not liking them enough to change
has not been impressive.

Mozilla (the old integrated suite) works very well with its spam
filters. But they've discontinued that a long time ago and like
with any good software I keep hanging on. IME changing software
when it wasn't absolutely needed just brought extra fluff and
grief. Just like with this Thunderbird.

Thunderbird works fine for most people - I don't know what's
causing your problems, but clearly it's not a common issue (since
you found nothing in your searches).

I did find a lot but only people having the very same problem, no
solutions taht worked. After I uninstalled Norton it now works. Sort
of, still sluggish.

Norton is a virus/trojan. It does not uninstall cleanly let alone
completely either. You need a registry cleaner. Check www.mvps.org
and dts-l.org for worthwhile ones.

There is a Symantec-specific uninstaller for corrupt installations. If
you're having problems go to their website to get it.


One also should not forget that a company that would secretly do stuff causing damage down the road can be held liable in court. At least in the US. Typically that ends in a class action and that's the absolute nightmare for any corporation. So they can't do anything really bad.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
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