Hi Doug.
At 9:50 PM -0700 1/19/14, Doug McNutt wrote:
1) You need to become acquainted with :
Reply-To: Eudora for the Mac <eudora-...@hades.listmoms.net>
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Okay.
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.
Of course, I've been using Objective C with Xcode since 2003. Been a
C++ coder since the early 90s, and a C coder since the mid 80s.
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.
As I said in my post, I'm staying feature compatible with current
Eudora (no IMAP), perhaps a better use of the WebKit though, current
Mac Eudora 6.2 HTML support running on OS X 10.6.8 is buggy and slow.
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.
I would rewrite the UI in Objective C from scratch and the backend in
C/C++ portable code. I've done this enough times that the block
diagram is easily realized.
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.
I won't be supporting OS 9.1, sorry.
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.
--
A Linux UI layer is possible. It can be done in any language, but the
back-end would be in C/C++ if I did this project.
/Jay
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