Post by: Mayo on November 19, 2007, 12:12:26 PM
Many long-time Eudora users are not happy that the "new Eudora" will look and function more like Thunderbird than Eudora. There is also concern over long-term support for the new Eudora. The up-side is that key members of Qualcomm's Eudora team are working on the open-source project.
I have used Eudora for ten years and there is still no e-mail client that approaches it in terms of flexibility and user-controls, particularly if a person has multiple e-mail accounts running on different servers.
Post by: kimmer on November 19, 2007, 01:16:23 PM
QUOTE(Mayo @ Nov 19 2007, 10:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Many long-time Eudora users are not happy that the "new Eudora" will look and function more like Thunderbird than Eudora.
I would be one of those, and honestly, if Eudora doesn't work, I don't upgrade. 
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I have used Eudora for ten years and there is still no e-mail client that approaches it in terms of flexibility and user-controls, particularly if a person has multiple e-mail accounts running on different servers.
Post by: sandbox on November 19, 2007, 02:44:26 PM
I have multiple email accounts and use the Category and Project applications to maintain an easily accessible databank. It coordinates with all other Office documents seamlessly. It has a great Help File and is kept secure and up to date.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/ento...ojectcenter.xml
Post by: Xairbusdriver on November 19, 2007, 03:24:30 PM
Some of us don't need/want 'coordination' with MS products. 
Isn't it nice to have choices?
Post by: Mayo on November 19, 2007, 04:01:39 PM
As xABD alluded to, and if I'm not mistaken, a major problem with Entourage is its use of one large database to store all e-mail messages. I also tend to avoid software that uses large databases since the possibility of data corruption (and the loss of that data...) is more likely than when data is stored in smaller, individual files.
xABD, there is a discussion at the IDS forum regarding certain structural changes that they are contemplating while developing the new e-mail program. The Eudora code came from several sources, so Qualcomm could not release the Eudora code to other developers due to licensing restrictions. So the new program will attempt to incorporate as many Eudora features as possible but by necessity "Odysseus" is being compiled from the ground-up.
BTW, I just purchased iWorks '08 after giving the 30-day free demo a try. I figured that it was time to upgrade from AppleWorks since Apple has ceased development and support for AW. I am Much Impressed with how easy it is to create projects in Pages compared with AW, and people are posting additional free templates on the Web. I also have read in a number of reviews that "Keynote" is a Power-Point killer, but I haven't had the opportunity to test it yet. So unless a person absolutely needs M$ Office (and doesn't want to try OpenOffice or NeoOffice...) iWork '08 is a very nice alternative indeed.