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The ONE thing that Eudora has that no other email client has, is the ability to delay the sending of messages until a certain time at a certain date. This is incredibly handy for me (and I'm sure for others if they stop to think about it), and is a feature that I sincerely hope remains in the client. | The ONE thing that Eudora has that no other email client has, is the ability to delay the sending of messages until a certain time at a certain date. This is incredibly handy for me (and I'm sure for others if they stop to think about it), and is a feature that I sincerely hope remains in the client. | ||
===Yesssss! === | |||
I was so happy to hear about this project because I've been running eudora4.2 in wine for ages now and its starting to fall apart. For a while it would not just crash but cause a kernel bug that I couldn't fix without rebooting if I tried to attach anything. Fortunately future versions of WINE eventually solved that but still. It doesn't cut and paste properly and the fonts suck. So I want a new Eudora that is native to Linux! I had basically given up reading a few years ago that there was never going to be a Linux Eudora... And I was literally researching Thunderbird vs. Evolution so that I could migrate... then I saw that THERE IS HOPE FOR US EUDORA ADDICTS. | |||
And migration is no easy task. I've got email from 1997 and hundreds of folders. I agree with a lot of people - no bells and whistles are required - just get it working compatible with as it was before. Eudora users stuck with Eudora because they liked the stability and elegance. We've avoided gimmicks for this long so don't wreak this now by going that direction. Things can come later. | |||
I do want to say that while the idea of having a multiplatform java version makes sense in that it would be as universal as java... it would still have to be java. That is like Azureous or OpenOffice for Linux. Slow and bloated, used only due to lack of alternatives. A depressing direction for Free software to take and also... java isn't really free anyways! So do not port it all into java - please! Keep it small and fast! Python would be better than java, but really it should be native. | |||
Thank you for providing me with hope Penelope project. I will contribute as best I can. I am so delighted to hear about this. | |||
Now my even more insane wish to have an Amipro in combination with Abiword is not so unlikely after all! | |||
== Eudora features that matter to me == | == Eudora features that matter to me == | ||