Alternative for Eudora email Client
 

I've used Eudora for more than 10 years and feel the need to look at other email clients...it wasn't easy to install it on Window 7 64-bit....I've dabbled with Outlook (has way too much extra stuff)...Thunderbird (better than Outlook but still clunky)...
Things I like about E:
- folders are stored as separate files on disk...easy to move, rename, backup, delete, etc
- fast (deleting an email in Outlook takes several seconds..online forms seem to indicate this is a universal problem)
- easy to work offline (i.e. a plane)
Anyway...looking for suggestions for other email clients
Tks

Have used Pegasus Mail for Windows for almost twenty years. VERY good client with lots of fine-grained control options if/when you need, but not in a way that is obtrusive.

I use gmail as my "client" - have done for 3 years plus and wouldn't move back. they can read my mails if they want - it's the price I pay for "free" mail.

I assume you've tried Penelope: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_Releases ?

Where is your mail coming from? Generic like Hotmail or Yahoo, Gmail, or a server at your ISP?

Do want to use gmail as my client....doesn't work on aircraft that don't have wifi.
Have not looked @ Penelope..but had heard long ago that Eudora had been donated to mozilla...will check it
Our corporate email comes from a hosted gmail service (i.e. it's our domain name but gmail handles the plumbing)
I think I used Pegasus about 20 years ago also when it was provided as an email client by my first ISP...had forgotten about that...

Gmail Offline beta is a Gmail app built to support offline access, allowing mail to be read, responded to, searched and archived without network access. After first start-up, Gmail Offline will automatically synchronize messages and queued actions anytime Chrome is running and an Internet connection is available. More than just an offline app, the streamlined user interface, based off Gmail’s popular tablet interface, provides extremely fast response time with a pure, email focused experience.

To start Offline Gmail after installing, open a new tab in Chrome; In the new tab pane you will see a Gmail Offline Icon. Click on the icon, and Offline Gmail will load.

Although what I like about gmail is that the mail is stored on Google's servers and I can read it anywhere, I use Thunderbird more because I have 5 email accounts set up on my mail provider - one for family, one for bills, one for business, one for catalogs and other junk and one for website registrations - and Thunderbird handles them all in one window, local on my machine. Kinda. When I am traveling, I forward any email I think I will need to my gmail acct for access while not at home. Cumbersome, but it works. Alternatively, I can set up email forwarding on my ISP's server or read mail as webmail, but I really hate Centurylink's webmail client, it's extremely clunky.

I switched away from Eudora back when it went to Qualcomm and really didn;t care for Thunderbird as much, but I've gotten used to it over the last 5 years or so.

I'm starting to sound like a Gmail Fanboi, but I roll all my mail accounts into Gmail. You can send from Gmail via other SMTP servers. Plenty of filtering so you can sort mail from various accounts as it arrives.

And - access from any machine anywhere. Though, I do have a 2nd gmail account which I forward all my mail to for reading at "unknown" PCs (Lounges, Hotels). Only for use in emergency and I change the password at a safe machine after use.

Last time I tried to consolidate my email all onto gmail, my email kept getting marked as spam because of the difference between the originating and sending servers - I'd get email on [email protected], it would be forwarded to my gmail account where I'd read it, and then when I would try to reply using the centurylink acct and the spam filter of my email recipient would mark my email as spam.

You set gmail up to read from your centurylink account directly from the POP or IMAP server. You can also set the SMTP server to centurylink and it is invisible to the normal recipient that the mail ever went through the hands of google.

It's up to you if you leave the centurylink copy on their server, or delete it knowing that google has a copy.

You only need to forward if you keep a second gmail account for "unsafe" mail reading, and then you forward from your mail gmail account. (See above)

thunderbird meets all your requirements. Not sure what the issue you have with it is.

Anyway, if you use imap, there's no need to backup the mail folders since everything is stored on the server, and yes, you can still do offline email. If you're not using imap on the server, you really have to ask yourself "why". But either way, you can still control where t-bird stores your profile and email folders and back them up if you wish. (though you don't need to since everything is on the server.)

in t-bird, you go into synchronization and storage under 'view settings for this account', click advanced, and you get a pop-up where you can select which accounts and mail folders/etc are kept in sync on your local computer, for searching and also for offline use.

Anyway, good luck finding one that meets your requirements.

-David

Curious about the lack of love for TB. I have it on a 64 bit machine and clunky is just about the opposite of what it is :)

Also infinitely tweakable with add-ons - if you use Gmail it works really well in IMAP mode - make sure you enable IMAP in your Gmail settings. Sync your Google contacts with Zindus, sync your Google calendar with Provider for Google Calendar, use Smart Template for different reply/forward and signatures...

Eudora? Geez, that's what I used as a freshman in college. Fall 1997.

Eudora works fine with Win7.
You can get any help you might need here:
http://eudorabb.qualcomm.com/