Eudora Going OSS

[Michael Brian Bentley]

I use Firefox because I'm a multi-platform guy, currently working 
with LInux and Windows systems to cross-develop embedded software. In 
my previous gig we had a strong OS X preference, tho I personally 
didn't think XCode was the hottest dev env in the world at that time.

I'm starting work on a sizeable guide/manual project, and I've been 
looking at my options, and am coming to the conclusion that my only 
viable choice for word processing is Microsoft Word. I don't think 
much of the way Microsoft Word does things, but I have tried a 
variety of word processors over the years on the Mac platform, and 
haven't found anything else that's reasonably equal to the task. The 
word processor market appears to be as dominated by Microsoft and as 
bad off as email clients.

I concur about the IMAP support in Eudora. I tried to get it to work 
across three updates, threw up my hands, just used Thunderbird for a 
specific account that required IMAP, and switched back to POP on my 
personal email. I looked at other clients and was very close to 
ditching Eudora, but ultimately stuck with it because the 
alternatives weren't compelling enough to beat a flawed Eudora.

Eudora had a bad spell a while ago where the new spam filter 
completely hosed normal operations for me. It not only was taking 
for-freakin-ever to process new mail, it was interrupting my message 
writing by taking so much cpu time it wasn't letting me 
t...y...p...e. I figured out what was going on, yanked out the spam 
filter, and Eudora started to deal with my high volume of email again 
in the accustomed normal fashion.

I mentioned the problem at a MacHack back then; little did I know 
that the developer who had integrated the spam filter into Eudora was 
standing nearby. He was, er, displeased with me.