Publisher's Description
From Qualcomm:
Eudora is a mail and news application based on the open source Thunderbird client from Mozilla. It's not developers' intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, they want to complement it. Qualcomm is committed to both preserving the Eudora user experience and to maintaining maximum compatibility, for both developers and users, with Thunderbird.
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All versions:
3.1 starsout of 84 votes
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Current version:
2.4 starsout of 16 votes
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"Will not work to replace Eudora 7.1"
Version: Eudora OSE 1.0
Pros
I cannot get it to work.
Cons
The price is right
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"Used to Be Good"
Version: Eudora OSE 1.0
Pros
Auto Configuruation - most of the time. Config is easy and very straight forward and doesn't ask a lot of stupid questions that most non-guru's can't answer anyhow
Cons
a bit buggy at times and slow to open
Summary
Some condemn it, but I think it is a good sotftware and definitely worth using nad/or at least trying - you may actually like it!
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"Thunderbird with an Eudora dress from WalMart"
Version: Eudora OSE 1.0
Pros
It works, to send and receive email. Seamless import of Outlook Express data and settings.
Cons
Clumsy, lots of redundancies, some setting are only conditionally applied, overyly busy, seems to have been authored in separate places by people who didn't talk to each other. Few if any direct, immediate functions. Can't make closed read messages return dynamically to intray. No need for the tray icons between trash and actual functions.
Summary
It's more like Thunderbird than Eudora, thus makes me wonder why it was even undertaken. If Eudora is to disappear, why not a third party use the Outlok Express architecture rather than that of Thunderbird (purely for the sake of OS inclusion)
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"Forget it, just does not distinguish itself"
Version: Eudora OSE 1.0
Pros
Ordinary email client with usual features and problems
Cons
I have tried Eudora OSE from time to time. Just installed it again to give it another try. A disappointment: some features don't work (display lines in mailbox, my old filters) and not as customizable as I want my next client to be.
Summary
I liked the look and feel of Eudora 7.1 and will give that up only when I have an email client I can truly customize. So I will not choose a new program that has ugly icons on the mail toolbar, resists efforts for me to display test or text and icons instead, resists the selection of "show lines in mailboxes", and otherwise is just a pain to work with.. Help, that takes you online, yields a waste of time.
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"Be afraid, very afraid"
Version: Eudora OSE 1.0
Pros
looks like eudora, works like thunderbird
Cons
eats up thunderbird without warning.
Summary
Installing Eudora OSE, one of the few moments of my life I'd like to do over.
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"Improves on old Eudora and fulfils most expectations"
Version: Eudora OSE 1.0
Pros
Provides good unicode support and effective integration of browser and thunderbird features. Extensions provide valued features. Good support of multiple accounts.
Cons
Need ctr-arrow function to move up / down paragraphs. Address book for groups should support suppressing display of group members in email. No hot key to make text larger or smaller. Can't defer sending email to specified date and time like Euroda 7.
Summary
I am a long-standing user of Eudora since version 4, and this welcome upgrade remains my preferred email program.
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"DON'T DOWNLOAD IF YOU ALREADY HAVE THUNDERBIRD"
Version: Eudora OSE 1.0
Pros
None at all
Cons
I though it would be good to have two similar programs for different accounts and address books, but when I installed it, it ate Thunderbird and stole its settings
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"Intuitive, stable, easy to use"
Version: Eudora OSE 1.0
Pros
Intuitive interface, good graphics, substantial management tools
Cons
Occupies a great deal of disk space. Messages can't easily be accessed remotely.
Summary
A solid piece of software. It far exceeds Outlook in capabilities, is easier to use, is more stable, and seems less vulnerable to hacking. All in all, I prefer this browser to any other I've tried.
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"More annoying than old Eudora"
Version: Eudora OSE 1.0
Pros
Similar look and feel to old Eudora but without ad box.
Transferred most of my Eudora settings seamlessly.Cons
Opens all mailboxes in separate windows, not tabs.
Insists on 'clearing' every message from new source for graphics and sorting addresses in stupid unclear categories.
Sometimes reverts to 3 pane view by itself.Summary
Mostly works like original Eudora but has several of the annoying features of Thunderbird, such as the 'remote content' nag and the stupid sorting of email addresses. Sometimes reverts to default settings by itself. Today opened up all mailboxes in separate windows instead of tabs on its own.
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"It is not well designed."
Version: Eudora OSE 1.0
Pros
The user interface is similar to old Eudora 7.0. A good thing for faithful Eudora users like myself.
Cons
I does not work. The integration with Thunderbird engine is not accomplished and is defective. It duplicates and confuses the mailboxes, you never know where a message will end up. Shameful design, acknowledged by its developers as "a feature".
Summary
If Thunderbird was a scandal, at least in its initial versions (I have lost thousands of messages because they simply vanished from Thunderbird), this pseudo clone of Eudora seems to me to be still worst.
How many tens of thousands ow work hours lost in spoiling a perfectly working application like Eudora into a defective and unnecessary substitute!!!
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