[gui-talk] eudora list

David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
Wed Dec 25 14:59:49 UTC 2013


There is a blind eudora list, think the subscribe address is 
blindeudora-subscribe at freelists.org

Dave

At 02:10 AM 12/23/2013, you wrote:
>I hear there is a list out there for blind people but I don't know 
>where.At 04:26 AM 12/22/2013, you wrote:
>>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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