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Eudora is dead

Michael Clark — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:26:46 +0000

Qualcomm is releasing Eudora to become a colloration with the open source project Thunderbird. Read the press releases from Qualcomm and the press release from Mozilla. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

So much for the exalted Real Soon update of Eudora. Now to figure out how to migrate tons of ancient mailboxes to Thunderbird.

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x-eudora-setting:7818 Reply to sender attribution

Michael Clark — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:41:33 +0000

You can customize the text that appears in front of the text you are quoting in a reply. Simply open a new message and paste in the command in the body of the blank message. Then double click that link. In the box that appears, simply use these codes to create the text you want to appear: 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

^0 The name of the original sender
^1 The date of the original message
^2 The original subject
^3 The time of the original message

I use this set of codes: At ^3 ^1, ^0 wrote: which ends up showing up as “At 8:03 AM -0500 6/19/06, (person) wrote:

What I want in an email client

Michael Clark — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:26:16 +0000

Giles Turnbull asks what I want in a new email client for the Mac. http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/06/what_would_you_like_from_a_new.html 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

I use Eudora for a lot of email management. Eudora’s limits needs to be fixed: (1) More than 32,000 messages in a mailbox. (2) Personalities should be able to be renamed safely. (3) better handling of filter rules that include the moving of attachments to another folder. If you move the Eudora Folder location, all the filter rules break, and your attachments all end up in the Attachments folder. Boo! And the mail client must save mail in mbox format. I occasionally use various command line tools to get stats on my mail.

X-Eudora-Settings

Michael Clark — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:12:00 +0000

You can customize tons of Eudora settings by using s. They are mostly defined at X-Eudora-Settings.txt. All you do is copy the tag to a new message in Eudora. It will become a link, double click it, and then change the options. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

A very useful one is: . It allows you to change the text when you reply to a message. I use the string: “At ^3 ^1, ^0 wrote:” to show “At time date, person wrote:” and the time, date, and the original sender’s name are placed automatically before the quoted earlier message.

Several years ago, I added in a Eudora setting that reads aloud the “bad” words in incoming messages. Unfortunately, that code is not publicly listed on the eudora web site any more, and I have no idea how to turn it off now. So I have to mute my computer when it starts spewing obscenities.

Eudora is Crashing

Michael Clark — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:55:36 +0000

I’ve been using Qualcomm’s Eudora for the Mac since the day I started at CDT, June 1, 1999. I’ve moved my Eudora settings file from Mac to Mac as I’ve upgraded machines over the years. And I’ve changed versions of Eudora many times since then. And changed from OS 8.something to my current OS X 10.3.5. And this morning I came into the office, opened Eudora, it started checking my mail, and promptly crashed. No joy. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

I have extensively customized Eudora. Tons of mailboxes, messages, filters, address book. It just works. Yes, the stupid ad box is very annoying, but on my 15″ PowerBook G4 it is fairly unobtrusive. And paying an annual licensing fee to get rid of the ad box is not going to happen. 15 users in the office, times $50 per year. Sorry. We’re a non-profit, we need that $750. I’ll go through my mailboxes and see exactly how huge my Eudora setup is.

Coincidentally, I just got the October 2004 issue of Macworld. A cover story is “Mail Call! The Ultimate E-mail Survival Guide.” They make a point of reviewing Apple Mail, Microsoft Entourage, and BareBones MailSmith; and of explicitly not reviewing Eudora, because “the e-mail landscape has changed and, regrettably, Eudora has been slow to change with it.” It looks like I need to investigate MailSmith.