TEST ONLY. Please ignore. Testing Eudora 8 and getting some backtalk from it!

Paul McGee:

TEST ONLY. Please ignore. Testing Eudora 8 and getting some backtalk from it!

Your test seems to work. The font you use (Courier or similar) is also displayed in the Web forums. You might want to post through simple text and not HTML messages.

Isn't Eudora 8 the version based on Mozilla Thunderbird. Haven't tried it in quite a while, but was a big Eudora fan for a long time. Would love to hear your thoughts on v8 when you've tested it for a while.

Gérard

Hi Gérard

Eudora 8 is indeed the one grafted (badly it seems) onto Thunderbird. What I thought would be an hour long process converting 10 years of Eudora to Eudora 8 has turned into bit of a nightmare. Eudora 8 (T-Bird withe Penelope and remnants from Eudora 7) is  still in Beta after two years! I should have waited.)

The Eudora 8 problems so far:

1. Import ("5 times faster" than previous versions is claimed!) took well over an hour,
2. Import did not include any of my email accounts (I have half a dozen), but did bring in the contents of their mailboxes. Try to figure that one out! Had the joy of figuring them all out again. The newsgroups from Thunderbird did come in.
   
3. For some obscure reason until I changed the default fonts to TTF (from PS)--Courier and TNR, all NON HTML emails and newsgroup posts came in as gibberish which I finally trace down to it thinking they were unicode. Mind boggling. As I said changing to TTF somehow cured that problem (I had been using the Corel supplied PS font LetterGothic  as the display font for plain text posts in cnews, and other paces where HTML is discouraged.) Took me hours to get that working.  Strangely "print preview" was fine, and was thee only way I could read plain text NNTP postings and Email items for a few hours.
4. The "quick list" did not import any of the corresponding items from  the corresponding Eudora "recipient" list, where I had about 20 items. Still haven't figured out how to create the quick list.
5. Documentation is non existent.

The good news: all the newsgroups imported from my T-Bird, but  as mentioned with encoding problems for plain text items. And I can write "His labour was rewarded with a grey coloured cheque" without hitting "ignore spelling error" four times--Tbird/Eudora 8 has a Canadian dictionary (along with UK and other dictionaries).

The so-called Eudora 8 is not ready for prime time, even two years after the "big announcement" at Qualcom.

Aren't you glad you're the manager for Corel Draw, not Eudora 8 over at Mozilla!

gmetrail wrote:

Paul McGee:

TEST ONLY. Please ignore. Testing Eudora 8 and getting some backtalk from it!

Your test seems to work. The font you use (Courier or similar) is also displayed in the Web forums. You might want to post through simple text and not HTML messages.

Isn't Eudora 8 the version based on Mozilla Thunderbird. Haven't tried it in quite a while, but was a big Eudora fan for a long time. Would love to hear your thoughts on v8 when you've tested it for a while.

Wrong! Doing so cured most but not all of that problem. I had to rescue some important messages by pasting them into a word processor.

Beware the so-called Eudora 8!! Even for a Beta it is a disaster zone and absolutely unusable. For those not in the know, so-called Eudora 8 is a very badly conceived extension to Thunderbird and proves beyond a shadow of doubt that "open source" is not the panacea it has been touted as. In addition to the problems listed in my second post, it is top secret how to actually physically receive and keep IMAP protocol messages, I am still looking for several attachments which apparently never downloaded to anywhere. I just spent several hours finding and identifying emails received by Eudora 8 and forwarding them to myself to pick up via Eudora 7 (real Eudora). Now I have to get it, and the corruption it added to my existing Thunderbird (for newsreader) somehow off the system without destroying my old faithful real Eudora. Glad I tested it on a holiday weekend when I receive few emails.

Summary: so-called Eudora-8 is absolutely unusable, with no hope of ever becoming usable, and totally disproves the much touted benefits of open source.

Paul McGee wrote:

1. For some obscure reason until I changed the default fonts to TTF (from PS)--Courier and TNR, all NON HTML emails and newsgroup posts came in as gibberish which I finally trace down to it thinking they were unicode. Mind boggling. As I said changing to TTF somehow cured that problem (I had been using the Corel supplied PS font LetterGothic  as the display font for plain text posts in cnews, and other paces where HTML is discouraged.) Took me hours to get that working.  Strangely "print preview" was fine, and was thee only way I could read plain text NNTP postings and Email items for a few hours.