Eudora Software Informer: version 8.0 information

	Eudora 8.0	Versions	8.0 8.0 (full review) 7.1 7.0 6.2 6.1 6.0 5.2 5.1 5.0 4.3 (brief review)
Category Communications E-Mail Clients

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	QUALCOMM Incorporated
	8.0
	www.eudora.com
	Shareware
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Review

Eudora 8.0.0b3 is a mail and news application based on the open source Thunderbird client from Mozilla.
Eudora, made by Qualcomm, changed dramatically from previous versions and now is moving to the open source trying to maintain maximum compatibility, for both developers and users, with Thunderbird.
Among the new features of this version is the skin of some windows like the Options and the Message Filters windows. The Add-ons is another great feature, clicking the Add-ons option on the Tools menus will show the Add-ons window like in Mozilla or Firefox web browser. Some add-ons available are the DOM Inspector and Penelope both already included in Eudora.
Now you can set up email accounts from Google and add news groups to received information from them.
Eudora adds the Google option to go directly to the Google website, it doesn’t matter which browser you are using Eudora allows you to configure the browser that you want.
Eudora options window now gives the user more control over the way that the messages are shown and notified. The Privacy option changed and some additional options were included like the Junk mail, the E-mail scams and the Anti-Virus now allows the antivirus programs to quarantine individual incoming messages.

Eudora offers several options to manage properly one or more e-mail accounts; this version is open source so many add-ons can be used.

This beta version has some issues upgrading from previous versions of Eudora. Some import features are not working properly.

Reviewed by: Ricardo Zayola

Reviewer rating: Editor's rating 4

Screenshots

Eudora Account Wizard

Eudora Main window

Eudora Options window

Eudora Message Filters

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Latest comments

	Philip Goddard(beginner) 16 days ago
	I'm a long-standing user of Eudora from verson 3.x onwards, and I now have what I regard as the FINAL version - 7.1.0.9. The so-called version 8 is simply NOT Eudora in anything other than name and some of the GUI cosmetic aspects. I tried it and not only couldn't it import my accounts and other data properly from my real Eudora settings but various of its features that were very conveniently at hand for me in real Eudora were hidden away and fiddly to find and use - and I noticed that the options available for me to set were very small in number as compared with real Eudora (i.e. up to v.7.1). So, from me a raspberry to the so-called Eudora 8, and I'll stay with Eudora 7.1.0.9 as long as it remains workable for me to do so. Incidentally, when I upgraded recently from v.6.0.3 to 7.1.0.9 I was able to quickly find, via a Google listing, a clean, non-dodgy web page that gave a registration number with user names to enable one to use that final version of real Eudora in full 'paid' mode. It is fine to do that because Qualcomm have put the program effectively in the public domain and are not selling it any more - so there is no ethical issue about registering the program in that way.

	Thomas Lottin(beginner) Last year
	Windows XP comment: version 8.0b really have problems to import settings from version 7.x I do not recommend to ugrade until there is a new release ..

	Guest #442413(beginner) Last year
	One of the best e-mail cliants I've ever used in my life.

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