[gui-talk] eudora list

Ms. E.M. Kirtley ekirtley at sbcglobal.net
Sun Dec 22 09:26:26 UTC 2013


However, if you do decide to start up a list I would certainly be interested.

Thunderbird was the follow up to Eudora, and put out by the same 
people, but they are talking about not supporting it any more either.

EMK

  At Saturday 09:22 AM, you wrote:
>Thanks, Steve.  If I give up Eudora, I will look.  As I said, I am 
>not wild about Thunderbird, and I gave it a good try.  I never 
>figured out Junk mail filtering, or regular filters.
>
>Dave
>
>At 10:52 AM 12/21/2013, you wrote:
>>Dave,
>>
>>I am pretty impressed with the Becky email program.  it isn't free 
>>but isn't expensive and has a free upgrade policy.  it is 
>>apparently pretty big in Japan and
>>there is a demo.  Perhaps my attitude isn't completely fair, but I 
>>am turned off by Thunderbird's tendency to constantly being updated.
>>
>>You can read more about Becky or get a demo at
>>
>>http://www.rimarts.co.jp/becky.htm
>>
>>One of the things I like about it is that it still displays a 
>>message in a window that has a cursor which means one doesn't have 
>>to depend upon JFW's
>>virtual cursor or the Window-Eyes Browse buffer to read mail.  In 
>>most cases, these features work fine, but there just always seems 
>>to be some sort of
>>interaction problem if one does a lot of email.  If anyone tries 
>>this program, there are a couple of options that need to be changed 
>>to make it work well with
>>screen readers.  The downside is that it doesn't have as many 
>>automated ways to deal with address books and message importing 
>>from other email
>>programs because it isn't as widely known.  While it seems to have 
>>pretty good filtering, I don't do a lot of that so can't say for certain..
>>
>>Best regards,
>>
>>Steve Jacobson





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