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I've been using Eudora since 1995. Lack of UTF-8 support is causing problems now... I'll be moving to another client soon. Recommendations more than welcome!
by beefman 11y ago
I've been using Eudora since 1995. Lack of UTF-8 support is causing problems now... I'll be moving to another client soon. Recommendations more than welcome!
- JoshTriplett 11y agoDepends on what you want. If you want a graphical client, try Thunderbird or Evolution, depending on if you need Windows support. If you want a powerful client for processing a large volume of mail, and you don't mind needing separate tools to handle HTML mail, then try mutt.
- veidr 11y agoI think the spiritual successor to Eudora is MailMate. Barebones functional UI, tons of features (many hidden or needing some end user work to expose or make use of). http://freron.com http://freron.com
- toast0 11y agoIf you're running Windows, try Pegasus Mail[1], it's a contemporary of Eudora, but is still maintained, and supports UTF-8. Releases are pretty infrequent of late, but email is still email, so things still work. :) [1] http://www.pmail.com/ http://www.pmail.com/
- keithpeter 11y agoI actually bought a copy of that years ago, or rather paid for a manual which was the way you supported the author in those pre-Millennial days. I tend to use sylpheed on Linux at home now when I need an off-line client.
- craigching 11y agoWow, pegasus mail! Thanks for bringing back the memories, I loved PM back in the day!
- wvenable 11y agoI was a long time Eudora user -- I moved to Thunderbird a long time ago and I'm still using it. There aren't really many reasonable desktop mail clients anymore.
- blue1 11y agoI still love and use Seamonkey. It's a mozilla-based product that is the modern heir of the old Netscape Communication Suite. You get a browser that is based on the latest Firefox but not dumbed down as Firefox is, an email client very similar to Thunderbird, an IRC client etc., all in a single package.
- lassejansen 11y ago[Disclosure: I'm a co-founder] If you're open to new approaches to email you should try Unibox. It's an email client for Mac (and soon iOS) that lets you browse through your emails by person, so you always have all messages and all attachments with a person in one place. https://www.uniboxapp.com https://www.uniboxapp.com
- hugodahl 11y agoI was in the same boat until I moved go Google apps for domains, and imported my Eudora content. My mother is in the same boat right now, and looking for suggestions. UTF-8 and prevalence of HTML content are making it nearly impossible to keep using in this day and age. Best features (not killer but very nice) are/were the storage format, and saving attachments externally, and not "in line" with the message.
- kps 11y agoKey features for me are filtering and multiple windows — it can sort all my email, and open mailbox or message windows for things I consider important. Local storage in an accessible format (Eudora uses mbox) is table stakes; roach motels need not apply. I'm still running OS X 10.6 largely because of Eudora, but some day this machine will fail, or I'll have some compelling need to ‘upgrade’, and by then I'd like to have a better option than Eudora in a VM.
- SmellyGeekBoy 11y agoI sometimes think I'm one of the few people happily using Mozilla Thunderbird. It hardly ever seems to come up in these recommendations and when it does, it's usually accompanied by plenty of criticism about it not being updated regularly enough. But I'm happy using it for 5 email accounts and the ability to copy the entire profile folder to a new PC (or even use it directly from a USB stick if you're that way inclined) has been really handy for me in the past. The same profile folder can even be shared between 2 different OS's!