The Eudora 8 beta version is not portable. I have been using Eudora for years and always stored it on a thumb drive that worked on any computer. Now when I change the computer, I loose all my previous mail and mail boxes and have to set up a new account on each computer. Not very satisfactory when the main reason for using Eudora is to take all my emails with me.
I have used different versions of Eudora on my computers a lot of yrs, best (work of art) being Eudora 7.1, as of late due to SLL certificate fails, and certificate updates, fixes to that not working more than a few days, I have given up on Eudora 7.1, and gone to Eudora OSE for the time being, maybe I can get a tech to help me get Eudora 7.1 going again on my current machine.
Guest,
As of 9/27/2017, 5:42 pm. (PST) I have been unable to send any mail, only receive. Apparently the blame is SMTP, which I am unable to remedy.
I downloaded an older Thunderbird version. Identical problem, identical SMTP obstacle!
I may have to download OSE.
Any suggestions?
socrates2, Every now and then this problem pops up. Easy fix. In Eudora Send an email. You get the error. Click on tools/options... click on sending mail then click on last ssl info. Go down the list of certs and make sure none have the black skull. I they do then allow that cert. May have to re-boot and try again. Sometimes it takes a few tries to get eudora synced up with accepting certs but will eventually work. Took me hours to figure this out but once you know how to do it only take a minute.
I have been using Eudora for many years (currently v7.1.0.9) and have been happy with its ease of use. My mail server is Bell.net/Outlook and, up to recently, Eudora was set up to transfer that mail into Eudora. Suddenly those transfers have stopped working. I am getting a strange message at the bottom of the Eudora window which ends in "ERR authentication failed". I have asked my server and Windows for help, and of course Eudora has no "help" anymore. So I am at my wit's end.
You might have to update your certifications. Offline mail servers sometimes change their credentials and you'll have to update your certifications with it.
tell Eudora to 'forget' the password for the email account that is causing the error. re start and then re-enter the correct password for the account - all should work again.. Eudora remembers your passwords but does not offer the option of correcting if what it sends is wrong. I have used Eudora since the 1990's and love it - better than all the others and I am still learning new things have about 8 email accounts it collects from and have had same error.- from Special select forget passwords (if you have multiple like me just choose the error causing account, the others are left alone) next time you tell it to collect mail it will ask for the password and then be fine. enjoy
Charles
Simply the best mail program ever sold. While Outlook today does everything that Eudora 7.1.0.9 does and with a number of other additions, it is so fiddly to use that Eudora will remain my email server until the software stops working and can't be replaced. I even have it stored on a CD for safety. I have been using Eudora since the University in Nottingham England put the first code together in the 80's.
I'm a long-standing user of Eudora from verson 3.x onwards, and I now have what I regard as the FINAL version - 7.1.0.9. The so-called version 8 is simply NOT Eudora in anything other than name and some of the GUI cosmetic aspects. I tried it and not only couldn't it import my accounts and other data properly from my real Eudora settings but various of its features that were very conveniently at hand for me in real Eudora were hidden away and fiddly to find and use - and I noticed that the options available for me to set were very small in number as compared with real Eudora (i.e. up to v.7.1). So, from me a raspberry to the so-called Eudora 8, and I'll stay with Eudora 7.1.0.9 as long as it remains workable for me to do so.
Incidentally, when I upgraded recently from v.6.0.3 to 7.1.0.9 I was able to quickly find, via a Google listing, a clean, non-dodgy web page that gave a registration number with user names to enable one to use that final version of real Eudora in full 'paid' mode. It is fine to do that because Qualcomm have put the program effectively in the public domain and are not selling it any more - so there is no ethical issue about registering the program in that way.
Although there are no doubt various points that could be improved, Eudora has proved over the years to be by far the most feature-packed, flexible and intuitive e-mail program that I've come across. Unfortunately version 7.1.0.9 is the final version of the true Eudora, because the so-called Eudora 8 is not Eudora at all but the much inferior Thunderbird dressed up to look rather like Eudora. I've tried the so-called Eudora 8 beta, and promptly kicked it off my system as a serious backward step as compared with Eudora 7.1.0.9. Eudora 8 would need to have major advances in its functionality and intuitiveness of its facilities before I would even consider looking at it again, and meanwhile Eudora 7.1 rules, okay!
Philip Goddard, I've been using it for years as well but I can't get it to work with ISP's that require SSL/TLS. You haven't run into this problem? I've been able to continue to use it because Rackspace has been hosting my email and they didn't require SSL/TLS. Soon they will so I've been trying to find an alternative. But if I could continue to use it I'd be really, really happy. It IS the best email client ever.
As of 9/27/2017, 5:42 pm. (PST) I have been unable to send any mail, only receive. Apparently the blame is SMTP, which I am unable to remedy.
I downloaded an older Thunderbird version. Identical problem, identical SMTP obstacle!
I may have to download OSE.
Any suggestions?
Charles
Charles
Incidentally, when I upgraded recently from v.6.0.3 to 7.1.0.9 I was able to quickly find, via a Google listing, a clean, non-dodgy web page that gave a registration number with user names to enable one to use that final version of real Eudora in full 'paid' mode. It is fine to do that because Qualcomm have put the program effectively in the public domain and are not selling it any more - so there is no ethical issue about registering the program in that way.
version 8.0b really have problems to import settings from version 7.x
I do not recommend to ugrade until there is a new release ..