Re: OT: Eudora a good alternative to Thunderbird?

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

David Brown wrote:

Joerg wrote:

David Brown wrote:

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?


Eudora are planning on releasing their code as open source - I
don't know how far they've got with the plan, but hopefully it
will still be around as an alternative (I like Thunderbird
myself, and have never had a crash or hang despite pushing it
hard - but it's always good to have a variety available).

Have you any idea what causes your problems with Thunderbird? My
company is pretty much standardised on it, and most people use it
at
work and at home. We use an IMAP server - I have not used it for
POP3 - which may make a difference.


Don't know, it just says "This folder is being processed. Please
wait until processing is complete to get messages." Which never
completes.

Found some hints such as that it might hang when a message with
empty header or some spam comes along. IMHO an email program shall
be able to deal with that. And it shall handle POP well, that
protocol has been around a while. It could as well have read "This
program has for some unknown reason croaked" just like Acrobat
does when it says "has encountered errors".


I've known email programs to get "stuck" on particularly badly
formed
email headers. If this is happening while trying to download from
a pop3 box, it may be necessary to use one of these pop3 deleters
to kill the problem message on the server.


They shouldn't get stuck. That would almost be if one of the test
sets I built blew up upon certain DUT faults. The client would have
me flogged.


<snip>



Very true. That is one of the real world differences between hardware
and software; If hardware blows up when operated within stated
specifications legal defense is almost impossible, if software blows
up when operated within (often unknown/unknowable) specifications
legal prosecution is almost impossible. This has begun to infect
real time, critical grade to life critical grade firmware. This
needs to be addressed, with extreme prejudice.

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