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    From Peter Donahue@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 21 14:45:42 2023
    As others have previously said, I think the time has come to move away from Eudora 7. It does still work fairly well on Windows 10 but a few odd problems have started to appear. the most irritating is the need to occasionally confirm the SSL validity.
    Anyway, I see various descriptions of converting mailboxes to Thunderbird and Outlook formats but I don't see any mention of how these conversions manage attachments. I keep my Eudora files folder on my data D drive and current it's about 14GB and my
    attachment folder is about 9GB of this so there are plenty of attachments.

    I think I would prefer to convert to Outlook but am open to alternative arguments. I would prefer to convert and just use the chosen new software but I realise an option is to keep Eudora, stop it checking for new mail and just use Outlook/Thunderbird
    etc from now on. I would still have access to all my Eudora emails. Not ideal but avoids conversion difficulties.

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  • From DaveH2@21:1/5 to Peter Donahue on Wed Nov 22 04:47:46 2023
    On Tuesday, 21 November 2023 at 22:45:44 UTC, Peter Donahue wrote:
    As others have previously said, I think the time has come to move away from Eudora 7. It does still work fairly well on Windows 10 but a few odd problems have started to appear. the most irritating is the need to occasionally confirm the SSL validity.
    Anyway, I see various descriptions of converting mailboxes to Thunderbird and Outlook formats but I don't see any mention of how these conversions manage attachments. I keep my Eudora files folder on my data D drive and current it's about 14GB and my
    attachment folder is about 9GB of this so there are plenty of attachments.

    I think I would prefer to convert to Outlook but am open to alternative arguments. I would prefer to convert and just use the chosen new software but I realise an option is to keep Eudora, stop it checking for new mail and just use Outlook/Thunderbird
    etc from now on. I would still have access to all my Eudora emails. Not ideal but avoids conversion difficulties.

    I have used Address Magic Plus to convert Eudora messages to Outlook format. I can't remember how it actually dealt with attachments, but they do seem to be still there attached to the Outlook version of the messages!
    Eudora is pretty unique in keeping attachments separate from messages, and not embedding them into the message file.
    This does have advantages, but conversion is a problem.
    You do have the Hermes SSL update installed I hope, if not that's almost certainly why you're getting SSL problems.

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  • From geo@21:1/5 to Peter Donahue on Wed Nov 22 08:26:05 2023
    On Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 5:45:44 PM UTC-5, Peter Donahue wrote:
    As others have previously said, I think the time has come to move away from Eudora 7. It does still work fairly well on Windows 10 but a few odd problems have started to appear. the most irritating is the need to occasionally confirm the SSL validity.

    As others noted, you probably don't have Pete Maclean's SSL fix: https://www.maclean.com/downloads/QCSSL_Update.zip has the bits and how to. Other problems are fixed with Len Shustek's tools: https://github.com/LenShustek/Eudora_fix_mbx which includes a
    binary patch to Eudora.exe to fix a few bugs and a fix_mbx tool to clean up goofy characters.

    The Hermes Aurora version of Eudora chugs along, still in Alpha but showing promise for a modern version of Eudora at some point maybe next year. You can get access to the Alpha by donating here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hermes-mail-8-0-the-
    final-stretch#/

    Finally, for those using email servers that require OAuth2, https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy is a robust work-around.

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  • From Peter@21:1/5 to geo on Fri Dec 22 12:26:32 2023
    On 16:26 22 Nov 2023, geo said:

    On Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 5:45:44 PM UTC-5, Peter Donahue
    wrote:
    As others have previously said, I think the time has come to move
    away fr
    om Eudora 7. It does still work fairly well on Windows 10 but a few
    odd problems have started to appear. the most irritating is the need
    to occasionally confirm the SSL validity.

    As others noted, you probably don't have Pete Maclean's SSL fix: https://www.maclean.com/downloads/QCSSL_Update.zip has the bits and
    how to. Other problems are fixed with Len Shustek's tools: https://github.com/LenShustek/Eudora_fix_mbx which includes a binary
    patch to Eudora.exe to fix a few bugs and a fix_mbx tool to clean up
    goofy characters.

    The Hermes Aurora version of Eudora chugs along, still in Alpha but
    showing promise for a modern version of Eudora at some point maybe
    next year. You can get access to the Alpha by donating here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hermes-mail-8-0-the-final-stretch#/

    Finally, for those using email servers that require OAuth2, https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy is a robust
    work-around.

    Useful links. Thanks.

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