Re: Eudora 6.2.4b4

In article <Rp8tg.171242$F_3.130954@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Stephen Esrati <stevsta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bill Cole wrote:



Mildly disappointed?

Nope.

Positively depressed.

Why? The current Eudora is terrific. Are you waiting for an update only
because you always wanted the latest thing?


The current Eudora is terrific for 1998. In the context of things I want
to be doing with mail in 2006, it is significantly lacking.

My list of missing features has not changed much in the past few years,
but here it is again:

1. Modernize EMSAPI so that it is feasible for third parties to write
plugins in the modern world. Alternatively, expand the scripting
interface to make EMSAPI plugins unnecessary.

2. Restore S/MIME support.

3. Bring back the 4.x filtering behavior that allowed continuing to
apply filters after any match rather than forcing an end to filtering
after certain actions.

4. Provide a "Run Script" action for filters.

5. Redesign the mailbox format to eliminate the size and message count
limitations which are artifacts of the System 7 resource manager. this
probably will bring with it a handy side-effect of making Spotlight
integration better, and simplifying the task of other programs trying to
look at Eudora's message store.

6. Hook the user-defined filters into the blackbox spam filter. Let user
filters both declare a message spam AND let them test the spam filter's
score.

Over the past few years I've had feedback from Qualcomm people implying
that all but #3 are likely to happen in Eudora 7. My own use of Eudora
and of mail in general would be improved by these. My ability to
recommend Eudora to others as an alternative to Apple Mail or Entourage
would be improved.

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