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>
List-ID: Eudora for the Mac <eudora-mac.cartel.listmoms.net>

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.
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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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