From: Stuart F. Biggar (Stuart.Biggar_at_opt-sci.arizona.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 10:57:46 EST
At 07:31 AM 12/2/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> > I have heard people comment on the fact that
> > Eudora has some very
> > unexpected or non-standard behaviour. I don't
> > remember the details of what it
> > was, but it sounded like a good reason not to use
> > Eudora. Is this something
> > obvious enough that you can divine what it might be
> > that I have in mind?
>
>Do you always believe everything you hear?
>I've been using Eudora ver 4.0 for about a year and it
>hasn't done anything strange except that it won't run
>if Yahoo Instant Messenger has already been started.
>I bought the full version at Bookman's (a used music,
>video and software store) on CD for $20.00. It's not
>the latest version but runs in Windows NT 4.0, 95, 98
>and ME. I haven't tried Win2K or XP yet.
>Don't get the free version! It is Spy Ware and also
>has lots of annoying commercials!
>
>
>=====
>Steve Coakley
I have used Eudora (purchased version) on Windows for
years. The current version (5.1R) works fine for me
on Win2K (SP2) on an A21p. The recent virus arrived but
was only stored in the incoming spool where Sophos
found and deleted it. We pop our mail from a unix
mail server (Sun Solaris on SPARC). That combo has
been quite reliable and has shielded us from various
problems. We are off campus so do not use our
department mail server (MS something). They have
been crashed and taken off line various times by
various problems that our UNIX/Eudora solution
has totally ignored.
I gather Exchange/Outlook has various nice features
but we haven't found them necessary. In fact, we prefer
the apparent immunity to MS virus problems afforded by
Unix and a non-MS mail program on Windows. If I didn't
have to deal with MS Excel and Word docs sent to me, I
would probably dispense with Windows and use Sun Solaris x86
which runs nicely on my A21p. It is (in my experience)
MUCH more stable than any MS OS I have used (DOS, Win 3.1,
Win NT4 (various SP), and Win 2000 (SP1 and SP2)). For
server applications and developing software with Fortran
and C, Solaris x86 is very usable and robust. It however,
doesn't support multimedia stuff, DVD players, sound,
etc very well. It also totally ignores any MS related
virus problems!
Stuart
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