[martin_fierro]

Did the subsequent versions of Eudora ever get a utility for notifying the users of incoming mail?

Am using v. 6.0.0.22 here and it can be set to check for/notify of new e-mail every x minutes.

Although for some reason Eudora has been crashing in a large way over the past 24 hours or so. So much so that I downloaded Thunderbird & am considering making the switch.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Although for some reason Eudora has been crashing in a large way over the past 24 hours or so. So much so that I downloaded Thunderbird & am considering making the switch.

Would it have possibly been a Windows update that caused the instability? If so, perhaps Eudora has a patch out for it.

i believe that you will find Thunderbird rather feature rich. A couple of dedicated Eudora users have made the switch and never looked back. There are (for example) features that permit the use of traditional webmail outlets, such as Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail, and others from inside the Thunderbird email client. You can send and receive mail from the client rather than use the webmail client. Both POP and SMTP are supported. You could also configure IMAP if you so desired.

[cloud8]

> ... for some reason Eudora has been crashing in a large way over the past 24 hours or so.

I still use Eudora 3.01 on my XP box. It's simple, sturdy and unobtrusive.

[Quix]

Martin is right, CDL.

A tiny little envelope appears in the lower task bar when there's email.

In terms of Eudora crashing, I've had lots of problems over the years with that--especially with my AMD dual CPU motherboard--if that is the issue, I don't know.

Got ANTICRASH software from Dachshund--great stuff.

Eudora personnel told me that Norton and a lot of others refuse to work with them to make Eudora and their software decrease crashes. Their attitude seems to be, reportedly, that Eudora is too small to bother with. Very snooty.

I tried Thunderbird several iterations ago and found it too clutzy and bothersome to put up with.

I still prefer all the features of Eudora.

Been up to Colo seeing JimRob et al. Sorry for slow response.

Thx.

[zeugma]

Although for some reason Eudora has been crashing in a large way over the past 24 hours or so. So much so that I downloaded Thunderbird & am considering making the switch.

Martin,

I Eudora uses  the same file format they used to, your change to Thunderbird should be fairly painless. I don't know if there is a conversion utility out there, but it may well be possible to just copy your mbox files to Thunderbird and have them see them. When I made the move from Eudora, it was a pretty clean move, but I lost a little mbox meta information IIRC. I really liked Eudora. It was pretty clean software as long as you used the purchased copy. The adware stuff was obnoxious IMO.