Eudora Glitch (OT) was Ron's...glitch

[Ron Nossaman]

> Ron, Avery, List Eudora users -
> I was originally going to post Avery and Ron privately, as they were the 
> only ones who claimed to be having trouble Eudora, but I will use up one 
> of my (OT) passes to pose the question to a wider audience, in case 
> others have been having trouble, without mentioning it.  What's the 
> nature of the problem you've had?
> 
> If you think it unnecessary to keep this on the list, even as (OT), 
> please reply privately.  Thanks-
> 
> Living in constant dread of such a calamitous turn of events.
> 
> 
> David Skolnik


Without e-mail, there wouldn't be a List. That makes it a piano tool 
for me.

I had Eudora 6.2 configured as simply as possible. No preview 
window, no automatic opening of attachments, plaintext, etc. The 
last time it ran, it downloaded messages and went wild! One spam 
message replicated about 20 times, and the program crashed. 
Restarting, I get "Mailbox has changed", etc., "rebuild", "use old". 
"Choosing" to rebuild, it says "could not open file for writing - 
reason: no such file or directory exists". Then it throws up an 
exception error message and shuts down. I haven't done a total 
uninstall and re-install because I'd likely have to hand edit all 
references to Eudora from the registry to get a clean install, and 
I've had enough other sources of aggravation lately that I haven't 
taken the time.

Thunderbird, however, annoys me, and it's basic stuff. Thunderbird 
opens the next massage in line, even if it's already read. When you 
are reading mail and delete the last message in the box, the 
highlight should be on the last remaining message. Thunderbird 
leaves nothing highlighted, and takes you to the first message in 
the box if you touch the cursor. Brain damaged. Even the raster 
display is wrong. The routine is one off on the scan line, and 
leaves a pixel high gap in the text with the scroll. That's very 
basic stuff, and shouldn't still be there. You can't configure 
individual mailboxes differently. So if I want to know who the 
sender is in the Pianotech mailbox, I also get to see who the sender 
was in my out box. Oh, and there's no automatic text signature. It 
also arbitrarily decides to mark apparently random ranges of 
messages in various mailboxes as un-read, which is quite useful and 
brilliant. The list goes on, but this is illustrative.

On the plus side, there are no ads to put up with, it hasn't crashed 
outright (yet), and I like the spam filter. This sort of programming 
has the potential of evolving faster and hopefully more specifically 
than commercial software, so perhaps a later build will, or already 
has, addressed these things.

In any case, that's where I've been, where I am, and some of what 
I'd like to see.