Eudora

I Dumped Eudora OSE

October 19, 2011 By Terry Stockdale

I changed one of my everyday software programs this week. I wrote about a year ago concerning Eudora OSE (Open Source Edition), a new open-source version of Eudora that is based on the Thunderbird email program from the Mozilla Foundation.

After a few days of running my old Eudora program in parallel with Eudora OSE, I quickly changed to Eudora OSE for my everyday use.

It took some adjustments and took figuring out how to have multiple email accounts using multiple email servers. But, I was pretty happy with Eudora OSE.

Then, I ran into a problem with its email filters. The filters allow the user to take specific actions on an email, based on the content of the Subject, To or From lines. I’ve put up with that problem, which came from no known reason — and certainly not a buggy update (there haven’t been any updates) for a couple months, but it finally aggravated me too much.

I’d used filters for years to get control of my Inbox, and put related emails into their own folders, e.g. I set up a folder for emails from a mailing list, and set up a filter to have Eudora OSE put them in the folder automatically.

However, Eudora OSE developed a problem for some reason…

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Emails and Spam Filters

June 17, 2008 By Terry Stockdale

Several people recently have had the emails, that they sent, fall victim to spam filters somewhere before getting to their recipients.

In one case of which I know, the email was sent to a mailing list. Many mailing list programs have filtering routines that are designed to block unwanted messages — not just blocking unsolicited commercial emails, but also blocking emails that appear to be help requests to the mailing list administrators.

Mailman, one of the more popular mailing list programs, does this kind of filtering so that all the list members don’t get the messages that appear aimed at the list owner. In particular, the filter is usually triggered by one- or two-word Subject lines in the email, especially if they have words like Help, Information, Info, Lists, Options, Remove, Unsubscribe and such.

So, what’s the fix? Don’t use a one- or two-word Subject line. Take the time to write a meaningful Subject.

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Filed Under: Anti-spam, Communications, Email, Eudora, Opera, Outlook, Outlook Express, Security, Security Issues, Software, Terry's Computer Tips, Thunderbird

Compacting Email Folders

April 9, 2007 By Terry Stockdale

There is a little trick to the way POP3 email program like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird store the email messages you receive. A “deleted message” is not really deleted! Did you know that?

All your email program does is to rewrite a few characters in the file in order to tell itself that a particular email has been “deleted.”

One particular marking in the file indicates that the email has been deleted, so the program shows it in the Trash folder. A different marking shows it has been deleted from the Trash folder. But, it really has not been removed from the big email.

Eudora to Become Open-Source

March 25, 2007 By Terry Stockdale

The final commercial version of my favorite email program Eudora was issued during the week of October 15, 2007. We finally got a new version, updating from v7.01 to 7.1.0.9.

There was another piece of good news — in plain sight — further down the web page at www.Eudora.com. Qualcomm, the phone manufacturer, has finally decided to release Eudora to the Open Source community!

Eudora is scheduled to become open source software, meaning anyone who wants can edit it and change it, in the first half of 2007.

Read more in Eudora to Become Open-Source

If you’re already using Eudora, and if you’re using it in “Sponsored Mode,” be sure to upgrade to the latest version before March 31st. On that date, the earlier versions of Sponsored Mode will become disabled.

Filed Under: Communications, Email, Eudora, Terry's Computer Tips

When I delete an email, it’s gone — right?

February 22, 2007 By Terry Stockdale

There is a little trick to the way POP3 email programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird store the email messages you receive. A “deleted message” is not really deleted! Did you know that?

Outlook and Outlook Express store all the emails in one huge file, even if you have your emails split between multiple folders. Eudora creates a separate file for each email folder, such as Inbox, Outbox, Trash, Junk and any folders the user creates. Thunderbird similarly uses multiple files for emails.

Personally, I like Eudora‘s & Thunderbird’s approach — if I should ever have a file corruption issue with one of the email folders, I’m not in danger of losing all of my emails, just those in that one folder.

Filed Under: Email, Eudora, Optimize, Outlook Express, Security, Terry's Computer Tips, Thunderbird