outlook hopeful

Jon and all,

Mail alternatives. I haven't tried this, but you
might want to...

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

...Another option is a decent web mail client,
like SquirrelMail, which I have at lumma.org.
There's also...

http://www.fastmail.fm/

-Carl

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@y...> wrote:
> Mail alternatives.

Sorry - I've been using Eudora for years, and it is bulletproof. I don't get virii, I don't have to read html, organization is a breeze, and I don't have to learn anything new.

IOW, no change is good. I get work done instead of mucking with new toys - I save that for music work...

Cheers,
Jon

>Sorry - I've been using Eudora for years, and it is
>bulletproof. I don't get virii, I don't have to read
>html, organization is a breeze, and I don't have to
>learn anything new.

I've been using Eudora since 1995, and Acrobat since
that same year (it was a beta then).

Eudora does have serious limitations. The bigger
the mailboxes get, the slower it is to load a message,
and the more likely your mailbox is to corrupt. I've
experienced mailbox corruption twice, and it isn't
fun.

So I created separate mailboxes for my regular
correspondants, but then it's a pain to fuss with
filtering or hand-transferring all the mail to them.

And it isn't very intelligent about tracking replies.

Eudora's good enough for me for the foreseeable
future, but I'm sensing something on the wall...
writing, maybe.

-Carl

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@y...> wrote:
> >Sorry - I've been using Eudora for years, and it is
> >bulletproof. I don't get virii, I don't have to read
> >html, organization is a breeze, and I don't have to
> >learn anything new.
>
> I've been using Eudora since 1995, and Acrobat since
> that same year (it was a beta then).

I haven't had any of the problems you've had with Eudora. It still runs fine, no corruptions, and it does what I want, quite easily. Certainly well enough that I don't see a reason, at this point, to switch.

> Eudora's good enough for me for the foreseeable
> future, but I'm sensing something on the wall...
> writing, maybe.

Well, I like that last thought!

Cheers,
Jon