At 5:51 -0800 1/19/14, Jay Koutavas wrote: >Now that MailForge is dead, I've been pondering... > >How many people would be interested in a faithful reproduction of Mac Eudora >6.2? 10? 100?, 1000? > >Probably 100, by the likes of the FB page. > >I use Mac Eudora v6.2 every day, since the mid 90s. I'm a pro software >developer. I have built stuff of this complexity a number of times over, >including a Mac email client a loooong time ago for Digital Equipment >Corporation. It's not easy to build a replacement. It would take EASILY over a >year for me to do it. If I did do it, I'd stick to keeping the same workflow >and features, and simply just "Freshen-up" the look and feel (but not change >it like MailForge did). > >Thoughts, comments? Collaborators? -- I'd do this project open source, because >I love Eudora mail and want it to live on indefinitely.
1) You need to become acquainted with : Reply-To: Eudora for the Mac <eudora-...@hades.listmoms.net> List-ID: Eudora for the Mac <eudora-mac.cartel.listmoms.net> 2) There are two different problems with Eudora. Email has changed and Apple wants iOS and OS-neXt to be written in X-code and objective C. The whole concept of email has changed and Eudora won't be Eudora anymore if it is rewritten to handle IMAP and HTML the way other mail clients do. Rewriting Eudora to compile in a newer Macintosh environment may be nearly impossible. It would be easier if the source code were available but it's not because of some patent issues with the search find parts of the code. Qualcomm says it can't release that because of a previous purchase agreement. 3) I'm using Eudora 5 on this OS 9.1 Mac 8500 and I find it very useful in the modern mail system. HTTP and IMAP just don't work. By refusing to read HTML and refusing to use a host that demands IMAP I find my spam problems a whole lot easier. Folks who want to talk soon get the idea. 4) What I'd really like to see is a version of Eudora that works in Linux with open source code. I might have some time to help with that. Most of the things I want could be done with perl which would be somewhat platform independent. -- --> From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it. <-- -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
