Remember Eudora Email? Is It Finally Dead And Gone?

Matthew Pollock said:

Yep. Eudora remains way ahead. People who don’t like it usually do just 10% of what’s possible with e-mail, and are (for instance) content to lose old messages.

Why listen to them? There are tone-deaf people who have views on music. You just ignore them. It’s the same here.

For fast, speedy, totally convenience, Eudora is it.

Paolo said:

No, no, no, I love Eudora, and I would be more than happy to pay to get a version that fully works on 10.5, including the sound (which I use to figure out whether or not to look at a new message right away).  I am keeping an eye on Eudora 8/Penelope, hoping they make it usable, but I’m not holding my breath.  I didn’t know about Odysseus… I’ll give it a try.

Jim Downward said:

At one time or another, I have used or evaluated nearly every email program for the Mac since Claris Emailer.  I use Eudora because it is the only one capable of searching through 8 years of messages (50,000+) in real-time to find needed information.  It also has significantly more fine-grained and versatile filtering than any other email program.  While it is not the easiest or prettiest program to use for the casual user, for someone who needs to semi-automatically review and file 100+ messages a day (25-50 of which may be very important), so far, it is still is the only game in town.  Hopefully Odysseus when it is finished will be as good or better.

campy said:

Eudora is only for geeks who view their email messages as family jewels and love to sift and sort in ways only intended for the geekasaur. It’s not email for the faint of heart or the average Mac user. You need a Filters for Dummies book to figure out that filtering interface. There are more versions of Eudora floating around than rumors about Barack Obama’s heritage. None of them work particularly well. At least Qualcomm had the intestinal fortitude to drop the paid version and turn the whole thing over to open source. Losing money hand over fist makes for easy decisions. If you want free email, go for Mail or Thunderbird. If you love Microsoft go for Entourage. All the rest are awaiting burial plots.

Eudora fan said:

Umm, you might want to check out Infinity Data Systems who’ve been working on Odysseus, a proper Eudoora replacement for OSX since 2007. It is now at version 1.0b7

http://www.infinitydatasystems.com/odysseus/index.html

And as for “Entourage User” - I started with Eudora, tried all the others, Thunderbird, Mail, Entourage, and always came back to Eudora. For power email use nothing beats it. Once Odysseus is out of beta I’ll finally be shifting from trusty Eudora 6.

Lisa Spangenberg said:

Eudora isn’t a dinosaur; it’s extraordinarily flexible for the power user. It’s got better filtering than anything—even mail.app and gmail—and the templates/stationary options are fabulous, as is the support for AppleScript.

And it’s easier to get back old email—it uses the archaic but easy to manipulate Unix mbox file structures.

I switched to Thuderbird under Leopard, and then to email.app, but I still miss Eudora. Only thing I’ve ever used, on Mac, Windows or Unix, that touched it was the defunct Claris Emailer.

Ronald Gold said:

I’ve been using Eudora since version 4, first on a MacSE, then Power Mac 6200, G4 iMac, G4 MacMini, Core 2 Duo MacBook, version OS 7 to OS X 10.5.5.

Nothing matches Eudora in my opinion. I’ve tried all the others and none match Eudora in speed of searching, ease of use, and reliability. I’ve never had corruption problems; no problems with attachments on MacBook running Leopard. And the mBox format of the mailboxes can’t be beat. The toolbar, totally customizable makes transferring mail from in and outboxes to designated mailboxes a breeze. I don’t get all the negativity about Eudora (other, of course, than the failure of Qualcomm to continue to support it). Both of the open source attempts to upgrade Eudora are a very long way from getting out of late alpha or early beta debelopment.

Entourage User said:

I think you’re right. Eudora is a dinosaur. Honestly, I though it had died off years ago. Who still uses it?

Some open source products prosper, many others just cling on to some kind of zombie life; neither dead, nor alive. Firefox and Thunderbird are alive. Eudora is one of the living dead.