Eudora with vista

In the end, they decided not to simply grant a license, but to transfer ownership of the code, the Eudora trademarks, the copyrights, and the Eudora domain names to the Computer History Museum CHM. The transfer agreement allows us to publish the code under the very liberal BSD open source license, which means that anyone can use it for either personal or commercial purposes. The source code we are distributing is what we received from Qualcomm, with only the following changes:.

The source tree consists of 8, files in folders, taking up MB. The Macintosh version of Eudora is an entirely different code base and is written in C.

The source tree consists of 1, files in 47 folders, taking up The license for the code allows you to use the code for free, with or without modifications, for personal or commercial use, as long as the copyright notices, the list of conditions, and the disclaimers are retained in the code.

Although Eudora became unsupported as of , some of us are in denial and still use it as our primary email client. I have over , archived messages in the Windows Eudora format going back to , along with 28, embedded images and 33, saved attachments. I run it with only minor problems under Windows I know of no other email client that can manage repositories that large and search them so quickly. I spend hours each day using Eudora to read and send email. I can do a complex search for anything in the 20 years of archived email in under a minute.

It will be a sad day when I have to give it up. Are there others like me? We have no way of knowing how large the community of current Eudora users is. If you would like to contribute to a short informal poll about your current and past Eudora usage, please fill out the survey here. Are you a Eudora user, past or present? Participate in our survey! I do hope that someone, or some group, or some company, will adopt the Windows Eudora source code and revive it as a supported program.

The Computer History Museum cannot do that. Only the Eudora fan base can. The tasks in reviving the Windows version include replacing several third-party libraries for isolated tasks, like spell-checking. The HTML rendering engine should be replaced with something more modern.

The handling of Unicode and other special character encoding needs to be improved. Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Application Compatibility. Sign in to vote. Everything seemed fine until today, when I had another hang on wake from sleep and it was the Out box's turn. Trouble is, you can't manually change the status of messages in the Outbox, so now all my sent messages appear with red X's next to them, as if they were unsendable.

I have no idea where my mail is going! I cannot find corresponding. So again, no idea what's happening to my mail. All the rest of my.

Closing it and re-opening without compatibility mode, I can see the more recent emails. I'm really uncomfortable with this entire situation. The stability issues with wake from sleep make me worry I'm going to lose important stuff. I had not read this thread and didn't realize that could be a problem.