Grumble bitch Eudora MS Windows bitch

[redbird]

I was reading my emailed comments, and scrolled down as a person will do, and the system froze. Completely. I had to press the power button to get it to reboot.

This isn't the first time this has happened. I don't think it's specific to LJ comments--they're hardly the only email I get with URLs in it.

At the moment, I'm running Eudora Lite. If anyone can suggest a better email client, please do. For the purposes of this discussion, a better client would let me download my mail; sort it into mailboxes/filters by subject line, sender, and recipient; run under Windows 98; and be stable.

(I also use mutt on the panix shell, from time to time, notably when Eudora can't get through to panix for some reason.)

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[spacefall.livejournal.com]

Maybe Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/), the standalone version of Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org/) mail? It's only in v0.5 atm, but many use it. I use Mozilla myself and get along very well with it (the inbuilt spam filters are tasty.)

[perigee.livejournal.com]

I use Thunderbird and I haven't had any stability problems with it. The spam filters are good, and if you want better, I highly recommend Knowspam.net as an additional service (US$20/year).

[perigee.livejournal.com]

Er. I should note that I run in WinXP.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

I have Eudora 5.0 with Windows 98. It sorts OK, but if I click on a link in Eudora, the odds are good that Eudora will step. Cutting & pasting the link gets around that, but is mildly proctalgic.

[sraun]

I liked Agent for reading mail on my Windows box. Nice complete set of filters, etc. (I'm now using procmail & mutt on my Linux box.) It's handling of multiple accounts is kind of screwy. Oh - it's also a full-featured news-reader, something I used on rare occasions.

There is something screwy about the hand-off of a URL - I got into the habit of right-click on URL, pick the "Select/Copy URL" option, and then pasting it into my web browser.

Never had fail on me completely. There were things I could tell it to do that took forever, but I could tell it was busy.

[spacecrab.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, make sure that the Eudora MAPI server is disabled
(Options->MAPI->Use Eudora MAPI Server (Never).

Also, while you're still using Eudora, download the patches to upgrade to version 3.05 or 3.06,
if you haven't already done so at: ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/eudoralight/windows/english/

I've found both 3.05 and 3.06 to be reasonably stable, with the MAPI feature turned off.

[kiya]

When my Eudora is crashy, it's because I need to compress my mailboxes -- I don't know if this is a platform-specific issue or something that generalises, though.

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

For freeware mail readers voted best by the denizens of alt.comp.freeware, see http://www.pricelessware.org.

I use Mozilla Thunderbird, and am mostly satisfied with it.

[volund.livejournal.com]

I have been using Pegasus Mail (www.pmail.com), which is listed on the Pricelessware site, for years. I'm running the current version under Windows 98 SE.

It has (and has had for a while) a very robust filtering capability, and has recently added a configurable capability for dealing with spam.

the best MUA for windows

[(Anonymous)]

is probably still The Bat! (http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/)

Not free, but an impressive product of mad Moldavian mathematicians all the same.

- Graydon