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i am a "eye"worker, that means, i want to know where everything is. and if there are big big files, which contain the whole thing of email traffic, i feel like a microsoft-puppy: helpless. that is why microsoft users like eudora, too. | i am a "eye"worker, that means, i want to know where everything is. and if there are big big files, which contain the whole thing of email traffic, i feel like a microsoft-puppy: helpless. that is why microsoft users like eudora, too. | ||
== Out Box == | |||
I've been using Eudora since v0.92 way back when. Nothing else has beaten it, so "keep as much as possible" is the way to think, obviously. | |||
TB has no outbox. All your outgoing mail apparently just evaporates once it's been sent. Those of us who conduct business via email need some way to track when we've sent a message and to whom and all that jazz. Yes, we could just BCC ourselves, but since even the lowly LookOut has an outbox, and we've kind of grown accustomed to it in Eudora, what the heck? | |||
--[[User:AndySocial|AndySocial]] 16:28, 28 June 2008 (PDT) | |||
== Complete import filters == | |||
This isn't so much a feature of Eudora that's missing in TB, so much as a feature needed to encourage migration to the new TB-based Eudora. | |||
When I installed beta 3 of Eudora 8.0, it didn't automatically import all my address books. It grabbed the nndb base file, and ignored all the others in the Nickname folder. A manual update grabs them, but it also strips out the filenames, so they're all nameless blocks of addresses. Ick. | |||
Importing all the MBX/TOC files shouldn't take as long as it did, and then I noticed that it converted all the external attachment files into MIME-encoded blocks of text in the new files. It would be nice if that were something that could be selected at install time - "no please leave my attachments out of the email archive, thanks" would be good. | |||
The installation program did not import any of my email server settings. I expected to need to re-enter passwords (hashes are unlikely to import after all), but not even the basic server information? When I tried to manually import those settings, it just threw an error. Not good, for those of us with multiple personalities (only in Eudora, not a disorder). | |||
The MDI interface is nice, but not a dealbreaker for me. Some indication of new email is needed, though. If something can't be done that is as elegant as "the mailbox is open, there's new mail in it" then stick with MDI! | |||
Otherwise, beta 3 is a great improvement over the base TBird for Eudora lovers. I hope it gets finalized some day (February is a lifetime ago in internet-time). | |||
--[[User:AndySocial|AndySocial]] 16:28, 28 June 2008 (PDT) | |||