Eudora

Eudora is a email-client from Qualcomm. It started it's life at University of Illinois in 1988. There are version for Mac OS X and also for Windows (if someone care).

Eudora looks lika an old program and it doesn't handle HTML mail well at all. On Mac OS X it has week integration with the system.

So why use it? Here are my reasons:

• Can handle more or less unlimited amounts of e-mails. I have all my e-mail saved in eudora, many 10 000, without a problem.
• Eudora has a powerful and unbelievingly fast search function. It takes something like 20 seconds to search through all my e-mail.
• Every aspect of Eudora is configurable. There are settings for everything and then some.
• Eudora is fast, stable and takes little RAM.
• Bayesian spam filter.
• Many and god shortcuts

Eudora is with other words a program for e-mail power users.

Things I hope are on the ToDo list for Eudoras developers:

• Plugin for PGP and GnuPG
• A more complet integration with the Address Book in Mac OS X
• Make it use the built in spell checker in Mac OS X instead of the one built in to Eudora. Spell checking work well now but it's much more convinient to use the same in all applications.
• Full Unicode support

Version 6.2 was just released and the biggest improvement for me is that they now using OpenSSL. Before they used some crappy proprietary SSL that didn't work against my Linux mail servers. For years I have piped my mail traffic through stunnel instead but thats history now.

Other good e-mail clients are Apple Mail.app that comes with Mac OS X and Mozilla Thunderbird. They can't compete with Eudora for me, yet, but they improve considerably with every version.