![]() ![]() Since I finally gave up any hope for "EudoraOSE" or "MailForge" to become functional and stable programs, I now decided to go with this one. " GyazMail" is less often being mentioned as a possible Eudora replacement. Also, my impression is that this is a one man show, and the developer of this commercial product seems usually 'on the hide,' is not offering helpful suggestions in his product related forums ( ) and seems also not to be reacting to customer emails. But this version turns out to be just as disappointing, nothing that would decently take care of even the most essential tasks an email program should handle. After a very long wait version 3 was finally released end of May this year. Versions 1 and 2 were extremely buggy, so much so that they could not actually be used in any real world work environment. " MailForge" is the email client I was waiting for. It seems most users have either switched back to the old Eudora (if they don't run Lion yet) or moved to another solution. The first release (version 1.0) in December 2010 was a big disappointment, and no further version has been released, which speaks for itself. EudoraOSE is based on an older version of Thunderbird. " EudoraOSE" is supposed to look like the old Eudora and to have the same functionality. The often mentioned replacements for Eudora are: How sad! Of course, if you only manage one or two email accounts, then you might be fine with almost any email application, including web solutions such as Gmail (which is a good one). The Eudora user community has discussed this extensively at various forums, and the reason for this extensive and long lasting discussion is simple: there is indeed hardly any email client that is as good now than Eudora was twenty years ago. ![]() In order to shift to another Mac email client one should do so before upgrading from OSX 10.6 to 10.7 (or to the forthcoming 10.8 version, Mountain Lion)! This also applies to the replacement process of many other PPC applications that require Rosetta. Eudora is a PowerPC application it thus requires 'Rosetta' to run on OS X versions 10.4.4 (Tiger) and higher on Intel-based processors, and Lion comes without Rosetta. For Mac, however, it stops working with OS X version 10.7 (Lion, released in July of last year). ![]() Seems it still runs on Windows systems though. Qualcomm stopped any development of the email client in 2006. I used Eudora for 19 years, managing several email accounts simultaneously. Shaved head or not, Eudora hardly left anything open to be desired as an email client. Sinéad O'Connor is right on: "Nothing Compares 2 U." Those where the 90s. ![]()
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