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Adding in Tool Tips for all the various features of Eudora would go a long way to helping new and intermediate users get up to speed with all of the functionality of Eudora. | Adding in Tool Tips for all the various features of Eudora would go a long way to helping new and intermediate users get up to speed with all of the functionality of Eudora. | ||
== A Few Key Points == | |||
Like many others, I've used Eudora since the early 1990s, primarily on Windows. What I do for a living puts my email addresses out there, and I get many thousands of messages a day. Eudora is the only package that can cope with that. Here are the reasons why I use Eudora: | |||
1. Personalities. It's a tough feature to describe, but a very powerful one that lets you manage your email through the use of multiple addresses. | |||
2. The ability to display multiple mailboxes, and to filter both inbound *and* outbound messages to those mailboxes. This makes it easy to capture both sides of an email thread in one mailbox. Most other emailers can only capture mail sent to you that way. To explain this another way, my In mailbox receives very little mail. I use a combinations of filters that identify personalities (and other factors) to identify all the mail that's sent to me and sort them to folders that frequently have people names or company names. The mail folders that matter open up automatically. | |||
3. Separating attachments from messages in the mail store, and the simple text nature of Eudora mailbox files. I love the fact that I can send mailbox files to another Eudora user who can then drop those mailboxes in his or her Eudora installation and open the messages they contain. | |||
Those are three of my required features, but there are many things about Eudora that have been begging for improvement for years: | |||
1. While I think many of us like having a lot more than three windows, a better window management system would be a boon. | |||
2. The configuration settings are a mess. That should just be ripped up and started all over. Let's get rid of things that don't matter, and add UI for newer things, like SMTP auth, and so on, that do. | |||
3. The address book is very weak. | |||
4. Third-party plug-ins support could use help, and better outbound communication to those developers. | |||
5. The X1 search is nice and fast, but its index is gigantic. | |||
6. Many of the best features in Eudora aren't very discoverable. The user interface is quirky at best. We all know it and don't think twice about it, but most people who try it these days absolutely hate it. | |||
7. I love the mail-filtering rules; my installation has literally hundreds of them and they've saved me hours and hours of time by storing things for me that I didn't need to read now, and making sure I saw things I absolutely needed to see. We need more than two data variables, though. Three would be better. | |||
8. Eudora's HTML support is weak. When you forward an HTML message, it breaks down to rich text. HTML support should be an option. But those who use it deserve better support than Eudora currently offers. | |||
Eudora has enormous potential. It needs to be easier to learn how to use while retaining its power. | |||