alternates Eudora.

[jlockley]

It appears that Eudora is going open source and will no longer offer support (such as it is...six months). I am guessing that no more paid mode means with ads. Eudora is somehow messed up on my machine with an uninstalled version of avg (causes memory dumps..even thought AVG cleaned from registry) and can't be fixed by just reinstalling, so I guess I need a new email client.

I've tried Phoenix and don't like it much, and the whole mess of Outlook, plus the insecurity of the Outlook/Outlook express issues don't make it appealing.

I work with multiple clients and need to sort the mail I send and receive by filters. My incoming and outgoing servers are not the same, which is a task in Outlook, anyway.

I do not want or need a calendar or address book.

I need to revisit errors if and when the occur. (not easy or for that matter possible in Outlook)/

What alternatives to Eudora, Outlook, etc would meet these requirements?

 

[smah]

Thunderbird

 

[jlockley]

I meant Thunderbird. Thunderbird, phoenix..same animal, different system. I tried it and found it not ideal..maybe I am just too attached to Eudora. In the meantime I notice that Eudora is ceasing to support or sell the client, going open source. This will apparently, according to a post in the Eudora forum, be based on Mozilla, so Thunderbird may well be what there is.(Some of this on Qualcom web site.)

 

[jlockley]

That's it, eh? Eudora is once again acting up. Mail boxes probably too large, but it is no longer an option.

 

[jlockley]

Trying to work with Thunderbird, but it prevents me from viewing Firefox, which is more important. (FireFox opens Thunderbird). I have some messy issues here. Thoughts??

 

[theannihilator]

backup your email and then uninstall firefox and thunderbird and then using regcleaner remove all regkeys of those two and anyother program nolonger on your system.
if that doest not work then your best bet is to backup your documents and then format your comp.

 

[jlockley]

Actually figured it ou t. I had both installed in same folder, somehow. It's ok now.

 

[theannihilator]

lol that would cause a problem too

 

[jlockley]

But still on the lookout for alternative mail solutions. I fortunately imported all of my files into Outlook before Eudora took it upon itself to erase a few..which means not having lost a paper trail to a lot of clients, but I'd like to get at least just the erased messages back to Eudora, if anyone has a clue how to selectively export/import (I can do a work around)....

Actually with all of it's warts OUtlook is beginning to look not so bad.

Eudora seems to have an issue both with Avast and with AVG.I have issues with Symantec/Norton and antivirus.com people. When Avast is loaded I get stop errors (which may be due to a faulty ntoskrnl32 file, which I need to replace). Avg brings it to a crawl. Clamwyn catches only after damage is done. So I do need an email program which will play decently with some incoming mail protection. Frankly, I like Avast the beest of all, but rebooting on every sent mail is not really much of an option.

(McAffee is also iffy).

 

[theannihilator]

mcafee sucks i use norton av which is good. make sure that you have no other av program installed all reg keys for av programs are deleted and then reinstall avast

 

[jlockley]

I did that. It appears that avast, which I love, has some problem with Eudora. There may be something going o n with with ntoskrnl32 - at least from the diagnostics I have run.

I use a registry app (only when I think there is an absolute need) which is generally pretty good about removing junk from the registry, and a manual search for avg, nav, symantec, etc turns up nothing.