Talk:Eudora Releases

I first downloaded the latest Eudora 8.0.0b3 and it wouldn't import my Eudora 6xx settings and I did have trouble setting up for my multiple personalities a number of which get mail from the same basic log-in email. I then downloaded the older/original Mozilla 8.0b1 and had no problem with the settings import aside from minor tweaks like for SSL. The long address/nickname list imported but removed some addresses from some folders or mailboxes that they were in so it got kind of interesting re-sorting them. Still need to play with it but it looks pretty good. Ben (04/01/08)

I've just downloaded Eudora 8.0.0 Beta... excellent so far with my Mac OS 10.3.9... But I can't find a way of adding new mailboxes... Advice please? - (posted by User:Luke13 on 2007 Sept 9)

I too have downloaded and installed the *.01 beta and cant figurew out hot wo trasfer my 6.04 Eudora mailboxes; which hold critical archive messages to the new software. Can anone help (doc) - (posted by User:Hbabad on 2007 Oct 27)

I also just set up Eudora 8.0.0 beta for MSWindows. It is a lot like Thunderbird. Have one problem though: How do you allow Eudora 8 to display graphics contained in emails that are received. As installed, it displays empty graphics boxes (place holders) with a "clickable" link in the upper left corner. Can anyone help? - (posted by User:Droufa on 2007 Nov 1)

Eudora 8b3 Address Book Still Needs Work

I just tried to migrate from Eudora 7 [paid] to Eudora 8b3 [open] and everything went well until I tried to import my extensive address books. The import feature would not find any named address books, and only brought in the entries in the Nicknames list. [comment: In fact, even those ones from the Nicknames list were imported quite incompletely in tests done by other users!]

Eudora 7 allows you to create as many address books as you like and creates a file in the Nickname folder called bookname.nnt with an index called bookname.toc. I currently have 23 address books in use with nearly one thousand email addresses.

The other thing that puzzled me was that the Mail Import feature did not bring in the Outbox folder of sent messages. That is a faily searious shortcoming when you depend on mail history for business purposes.

The Filters appear to work well in Eudora 8b3. I use over 100 filters to file incoming messages into appropriate folders and keep my inbox clean. My biggest complaint about Eudora 7 is that the program bombs with an access violation after updating a few filters, or just scrolling down the list with arrow keys. This can be avoided by carefull manual editing of the filters.pce file.

I think Eudora 8 would be ready for prime time if the Address Book could work as well as Eudora 7. Looking forward to the next installment!

Migrating Labels

We have users who use Labels in Eudora extensively, and it's critical for those people to have their labels migrated, either by Thunderbird or Eudora 8. We have used Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to migrate to Thunderbird, but that does not include migrating labels. Likewise, Eudora 8 does not bring labels over from Eudora 6.2 (Mac)

Is there any chance that in the near future there will be a release of Eudora 8 that will include migration for labels?

UTF-8 Support

is the UTF-8 support now included, in the eudora 8.0.0.b3 release? It seems that the answer ist yes, and that's very good news, in fact. A bug regarding this appears on the bug list as solved, and as far as I tested it, by receiving utf-8 messages with eudora 8b3, it worked.

The utf-8 compliance is still one of the most important arguments for users of older eudora versions to look forward for eudora 8 (and future releases). Inspite of a (well-known) plug-in for the old qualcomm versions (until eudora 7.1), utf-8 still produces a lot of trouble.

It is a bit curious that the famous citation from Wikipedia, about the "dubious" distinction of eudora not being utf-8 compliant was not reviewed or annotated. It would be an important matter. I was myself not at all aware that this change of eudora already happened, and if I would not have been so perseverant to install and test eudora 8b3, I would still think it does not work.

Clean Uninstall of latest beta?

How does one do a clean uninstall? I hosed the install of latest beta, and now when I add/remove and then run installer again, Eudora will not download e-mail. You can click "Check Mail" all you want but it does nothing. Yet you can send mail. Servers are set up just fine.

beta 3 problems with Vista sp1 ?!

just upgraded to beta 8.0.0b3 and was working fine until i upgraded Vista to SP1. then all hell broke loose. every time i treid to start eudora it crashed with a blue screen. error was something about "tcpip.sys" . curiously the same thing happened when i tried to use outlook to check email ! after much effort, had to uninstall SP1 and things are back to fine now. explanations ? fixes ? we NEED to be able to use SP1 -when will Eudora fix this problem ?? thanx