OT: "New" Open Source "Eudora"

[DanS]

Look, I don't know if anyone here is/was a Eudora user, but........

I had used it faithfully from like '95 up until about a year and a half
ago when I did a fresh install of XP.

Eudora was one of the best e-mail clients around. The last version was
released a couple of years ago. Shortly after that the website revealed
that Qualcomm didn't want to continue support for Eudora, so it was
transferring it to open-source, and that a new & improved version would
be coming out in time.

I'd check back at the website periodically and there was nothing new
until I looked this morning. There was a new beta version available for
tryout.

It's not Eudora anymore, what these people are trying to pass of as
Eudora is nothing more than another f'n branch-off of Mozilla
Thunderbird, which I didn't find out until I installed it and ran it,
which subsequently f'd up some of my current T-Bird settings.

So.....don't even bother.

Here's the readme, which i wish I would have read before-hand......

=========================================================================
=====
EUDORA VERSION 8.0
=========================================================================
=====

Eudora is a mail and news application from Qualcomm based on the open
source Thunderbird client from Mozilla. It's *not* our intention to
compete with Thunderbird; rather, we 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. It is our goal to build a single development community
around Thunderbird and Eudora, so that both mailers advance faster than
they previously have.

Whereas "Eudora" is a branded version of Thunderbird with some extra
features added by the Eudora developers, "Penelope" is an extension (also
called an "add-on") that is used in Eudora and can also be used with
Thunderbird. The Eudora installer includes the corresponding version of
Penelope along with it so there is no need to install Penelope if you are
installing Eudora. Most features in Penelope can be accessed when used
with
Thunderbird, but there are a few that require Eudora in order to work
correctly and it's not something that gets tested.

Sometimes in documentation there is a need to differentiate the older
versions of Eudora made by Qualcomm from current Thunderbird-based
versions of Eudora. This will normally be done by labeling the older
versions of Eudora as "original Eudora" or "Classic Eudora".

The main web page for Eudora/Penelope can be found at
<http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope>.

We encourage people to help the progress of Penelope, whether you know
how to write code or not. This was one of the main drivers to our
decision to go open source with Eudora. More details can be found here:
<http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope#Get_Involved>.

 

[Paul Montgumdrop]

DanS wrote:

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No one cares.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

DanS wrote:

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No one cares.

Shut up you idiot.

ss.

 

[Paul Montgumdrop]

Shut up you idiot.

ss.

Do you think you can make me?

 

[DanS]

DanS wrote:

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No one cares.

Stop crying about your pitiful existance.

 

[Paul Montgumdrop]

Stop crying about your pitiful existance.

Hey, don't get your panties in a pinch now.

The only one that has a pitiful existence is you. Maybe if you got your
life straighten out, because you're on Usenet just a little too much to
be normal, learn how to spell *existence* and drink prune juice to keep
your mind right and be regular, it can only be brighter for you. You
seem a little tense.

 

[Bill Bell]

Look, I don't know if anyone here is/was a Eudora user, but........

<snip>

I can see that this would be pain in the proverbial. Unfortunately I
wonder just how many Eudora users would think of looking on this group
to find out about this?

Have you considered sending an email to the current developers telling
them about your experience and asking them to make it clearer that
it's not really Eudora before the user downloads?

 

[Spanky deMonkey, ESQ]

Hey, don't get your panties in a pinch now.

The only one that has a pitiful existence is you. Maybe if you got your
life straighten out, because you're on Usenet just a little too much to be
normal, learn how to spell *existence* and drink prune juice to keep your
mind right and be regular, it can only be brighter for you. You seem a
little tense.

DanS's Sheep has been holding out on him so it's making him crazy. He needs
to take "matters into his own hands" if you know what I mean!

 

[DanS]

<snip>

I can see that this would be pain in the proverbial. Unfortunately I
wonder just how many Eudora users would think of looking on this group
to find out about this?

Understandable. I don't think anyone would go looking for info on Eudora
anywhere other than it's website though anyway.

It was just a general FYI, without saying FYI.

Have you considered sending an email to the current developers telling
them about your experience and asking them to make it clearer that
it's not really Eudora before the user downloads?

I did send them an e-mail already.

But, to be fair, I didn't read the readme file I included in the original
post. There was a d/l link to the readme elsewhere on the d/l page, but
many don't read those prior to d/l'g. Not a simple readme anyway, maybe
if it was a notice about incompatibilities with (whatever) or some other
technical notes.

After posting, I did find out some details of the branching effort, and
honestly, if I wasn't already using (the real) T-Bird, I might use T-
Eudora.

What I DO find appealing about the branch is that the Eudora T-Bird works
just like the original (now called Eudora classic) did.

By that I mean:

-It is portable
-Mailboxes are each stored in their own file
-Attachments are d/l'd and stored as the actual file intot he specified
attachments directory, not BLOB'd into a big database, along with the e-
mails themselves.

The one thing I always liked about Eudora was that it was portable. If
you needed to replace a drive, or re-install your system, or move to a
new PC, all you needed to do was backup the Eudora directory, and then
copy it back to the new place and it was ready to go.

I always hated the big database way of doing things, like T-Bird,
Outlook, etc. D/L'g attachments to the actual files was also a plus to
me.

Hmmm. The more I talk about, the more it seems like my big gripe was that
I thought it was....well......version 9 of Eudora, and not a variant of
T-Bird.

 

[DanS]

DanS's Sheep has been holding out on him so it's making him crazy. He
needs to take "matters into his own hands" if you know what I mean!

Sorry, I don't own any farm animals, loser. Go back to whatever farm you
were visiting the last few days and be gone with you for good.

 

[DanS]

The only one that has a pitiful existence is you. Maybe if you got your
life straighten out, because you're on Usenet just a little too much to
be normal, learn how to spell *existence* and drink prune juice to keep
your mind right and be regular, it can only be brighter for you. You
seem a little tense.

Uh yeah, I'll learn to spell existence correctly when you learn to spell
'straightened' properly.

I'm not on usenet nearly as much as you and your tens of other
personalities are. Get your facts straight. Or is that get your facts
straighten ?

 

[Alias]

The one thing I always liked about Eudora was that it was portable. If
you needed to replace a drive, or re-install your system, or move to a
new PC, all you needed to do was backup the Eudora directory, and then
copy it back to the new place and it was ready to go.

T-Bird does that, both in Windows XP and Ubuntu.

Alias

 

[DanS]

T-Bird does that, both in Windows XP and Ubuntu.

Alias

Sort of.

You can copy over the install directory, but if the data is not found in c:
\documents and settings\username\appdata\thunderbird it starts out as the
first time it is run.

I wasn't aware until I just tested it. Thanks.

 

[Paul Montgumdrop]

I'm not on usenet nearly as much as you and your tens of other
personalities are. Get your facts straight. Or is that get your facts
straighten ?

That's BS. I am not out here as much as you. And changing a nym to come
through someone's killfile, or show a nym as a theme is not a
personality change. You should ask your boy Montgomery about his recent
nym change for a theme. ;-P

 

[DanS]

That's BS. I am not out here as much as you.

Wrong again chump. You can add...can't you ?

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9:16:57 PM)

Top Posters

Ranking Articles Name
------- -------- ----------------------------
23 235 DanS

30 172 Mr. Arnold
106 46 The Bee
112 45 Chicken Little Albright
179 26 Dan S-illy aka Barney Phife
201 22 Ringmonster
215 20 Tall Tales Albright
233 19 Hunting for JackA$$
248 17 Anti on Chicken Little(s)
257 16 General Paul Montgomery1
259 16 Little Mad Dog
262 16 Kotex Queen Clear Windows
315 13 The Hornet
317 13 Paul Montgumdrop
330 13 Van Helsing the Albright Hunter
412 10 Doctor Bee
1128 3 General Paul Montgomery2

Grand total for you = 467....so yes, more than I.

And those are only the names I know you've used.

And changing a nym to come through someone's killfile,

Why ? You never get any replies other than from the people you're
attacking anyway.

or show a nym as a theme is not a
personality change.

You're right.....you're an a**hole no matter what posting name you use.

C-YAAAAAA!

 

[Guest]

Understandable. I don't think anyone would go looking for info on Eudora
anywhere other than it's website though anyway.

It was just a general FYI, without saying FYI.

So you love saying FYI also? We have a resident wack job who also loves to
say Just FYI. Maybe you should call him and get together. Amazing things
can happen. I'm sure kevpan815 will be looking forward to hearing from
another douche bag.

 

[Guest]

Stop crying about your pitiful existance.

Maybe you should stop crying about your pitiful life.

 

[Paul Montgomery]

Wrong again chump. You can add...can't you ?

From article 340788 (5/16/2008 12:12:35 AM) to article 389969 (9/13/2008
9:16:57 PM)

Top Posters

Ranking  Articles  Name
-------  --------  ----------------------------
     23       235  DanS

     30       172  Mr. Arnold
    106        46  The Bee
    112        45  Chicken Little Albright
    179        26  Dan S-illy aka Barney Phife
    201        22  Ringmonster
    215        20  Tall Tales Albright
    233        19  Hunting for JackA$$
    248        17  Anti on Chicken Little(s)
    257        16  General Paul Montgomery1
    259        16  Little Mad Dog
    262        16  Kotex Queen Clear Windows
    315        13  The Hornet
    317        13  Paul Montgumdrop
    330        13  Van Helsing the Albright Hunter
    412        10  Doctor Bee
   1128         3  General Paul Montgomery2

Grand total for you = 467....so yes, more than I.

And those are only the names I know you've used.

Here's a more complete list... followed by the list he uses in
comp.os.linux.advocacy:

Anti on Chicken Little(s)
Chicken Little Albright
Dan S-illy aka Barney Phife
Doctor Bee
General Paul Montgomery
General Paul Montgomery1
General Paul Montgomery2
General Paul Montgomery3
General Paul Montgomery4
General Paul Montgomery5
General Paul Montgomery6
General Paul Montgomery7
Hunting for JackA$$
Junk Yard Dog
Kotex Queen Clear Windows
Mick Murphy
Montgumdrop
Mr. Arnold
Paul Montgomery
Paul Montgomery 9000
Paul Montgumdrop
Pauly
Ringmonster
Sudden Impact
Tall Tales Albright
The Bee
The Big Ticket
The Hornet
Van Helsing the Albright Hunter

List from comp.os.linux.advocacy

Anti on Chicken Little(s)
Anti on Linux Sinister Chicken Littles
Brown Nosing Linonut
chrisv1
COLA Fish and Game
COLO Loons
COLA People Controller
COLA Sucks
Confused Donkey
Linonut
Linux Sucks
Little Mad Dog
Montgumdrop
Paul Montgomery
Roy S. Schestowitz
Savwafare with Flare
Sudden Impact
The Bee
The Big Ticket
The Hornet
The Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger1
The Lone Ranger2
Triple X Killer

"Paul Montgomery", "Mick Murphy" and "Linonut" are not made up, but
are taken from other posters.

"Roy S. Schestowitz" belongs to someone else (2004), and he started
using it July 21

 

[Paul Montgomery]

"Paul Montgomery", "Mick Murphy" and "Linonut" are not made up, but
are taken from other posters.

"Roy S. Schestowitz" belongs to someone else (2004), and he started
using it July 21

I should add: The REAL Roy dropped the use of "S" in 2004. He is now
a very frequent poster in comp.os.linux.advocacy as "Roy Schestowitz".

 

[Alias]

Sort of.

You can copy over the install directory, but if the data is not found in c:
\documents and settings\username\appdata\thunderbird it starts out as the
first time it is run.

I wasn't aware until I just tested it. Thanks.

I just go to the newly installed T-Bird and nuke everything in the
folder and replace it with the back up and it's exactly the same way it
was before except for passwords. It restores all mail, the address book
and accounts. You can't do that with OE or OL.

Alias