{"id":2264,"date":"2012-04-05T15:38:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T19:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2012-04-05T15:40:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T19:40:55","slug":"goodbye-eudora-hello-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/goodbye-eudora-hello-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Eudora, hello Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I gave up on an old friend, and surprisingly enough I don&#8217;t feel awfully bad about it. But after 18 years, it&#8217;s about time to move on to something new.<\/p>\n<p>I had to read that number &#8211; &#8220;18&#8221; &#8211; again; it&#8217;s been that long since 1994, when I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eudora.com\/archive.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Eudora<\/strong><\/a> as my email client for the first time, on Windows 3.1 no less. Back then, it was a huge move up from Mail and Pine, both of which I utilized in Unix systems.<\/p>\n<p>And now, Eudora has to go because it can&#8217;t cope well with the <strong>50,000+ emails<\/strong> I&#8217;ve accumulated over the years; its mailbox crashes often led to data loss which I compensated for with regular back-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Although Eudora has an open source variant, named &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Eudora_OSE\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Penelope<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;, it is not supported by Mozilla. The obvious solution: use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mozilla Thunderbird<\/strong><\/a>; a stable, often updated, free email client with all the bells and whistles one needs. For the record, I would never touch Microsoft Outlook with a ten foot pole.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderbird is quiet, efficient, fast and offers plenty a method to organize, search and manage my sizable stack of emails. 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