Post by DaveH2Post by DaveH2Post by Talland KeenAbout a month after your post and I have having problems with Eudora 7 with my IP provider.
I run both Thunderbird and Eudora and Thunderbird is still working.
Eudora has SSL negotiation problems.
So sad to loose Eudora since T-bird works but is so slow and awkward.
dk
Post by FrederickLast week I checked my email on Cox.net using Eudora Pro v. 7x. All
was good with the world,
Then, before retiring for the evening I checked again circa 22:45.
Eudora gave me error messages about checking email using plain text
and not using SSL.
When I went to the certificate manager in Eudora Pro I noticed there
was no last SSL info available. The certificate manager SSL info was
blank and contained no information.
I'm wondering, could this be the end of my Eudora Pro?
I called tech support and they acted like I didn't know WTF I was
talking about. They also said Cox had made no changes to their email
servers.
Yeah Right!
Has anyone else using Cox and Eudora Pro had this problem? And if
so, did you solve it and how?
TIA.
Did you find out what was causing this?
There are solutions to the SSL issues. I don't know all the details, but others have described it here several times. I have used Eudora on my PCs since Windows 95, and continue to use it on each new machine simply by copying the Eudora folder over.
I am a bit tired of the growing display problems, because of relying on Internet Explorer or some other very old software to format the emails in the Eudora window. I receive a number of important emails (banking for example) that simply don't display in Eudora, and have to be opened in a browser. Fortunately Eudora has a button for that.
There's also Hermes, which I have not looked into personally. I tried using Thunderbird for a while (for usenet before email) only to have it crap out on me with no clear path to recovery. I switched to Seamonkey since it would accept the data files. But it crapped out a year later. I could test those with usenet without worrying about losing emails. Switching to Hermes would put all my email data in those hands. So, for now, I'm sticking with Eudora and its quirks.
You won't be putting your email data in anyone's hands with Hermes. Hermes is just a rebuilt version of Eudora, which will hopefully work with modern protocols and display messages correctly. It's now been renamed Aurora, and it's only at alpha stage at the moment, but it's looking promising.
It is from the same people who were behind the original Hermes project, which was (and is) simply an updated set of files to enable Eudora to communicate with servers using TLS 1.2, which is becoming mandatory for most email providers. It's been discussed here many times.
Hermes is not an ISP. So your statements are pointless about that.
@Talland Keen
Glad to hear it's all working again!
@Rick C
I know Hermes isn't an ISP.
Sorry, I probably misunderstood what you were saying about it.
When you said "Switching to Hermes would put all my email data in those hands" I thought you meant that you thought that Hermes would somehow have your data.
By that, I meant I would be vulnerable to a crash losing my email. In all the years I've used Eudora the number of emails I've lost, I can count on one hand.
But then I had Hermes mixed up with the other email tool, Aurora, which is new code. Your post seems to be saying Hermes is just Eudora with updated TLS code, which I have added. It was pretty easy to add to Eudora, but I've seen some posts here where people have failed.
I only have another year or so of professional work, where I would care a great deal about preserving my emails. Then I won't care so much. After all, most people don't even know what email is anymore. I'll get a new phone number to help with the spam calls... maybe, not sure that they don't call made up numbers. They definitely send spam to made up email addresses. Years ago, I received all email sent to the domain, regardless of the address. It reached a point where I would get maybe five emails a day, 20 or 30 spam emails to those addresses and 100+ emails to made up email addresses. I had to cut off the catch all, and now I create a unique email address for every vendor I exchange email with. That's over
That shows the spammers were not only being spammers, they were ripping off their clients, saying they had sent 100,000 emails, when the vast majority would never been received, much less seen by a human.