Does anyone have a step-by-step for moving my Eudora from Windows 7 to new computer with Windows 10?

[John A Davis]

I have used Eudora since the beginning of time. I am currently using it on Windows 7 and it works flawlessly with sTunnel taking care of the certificate problem.

However, the time has come to move to Windows 10. I want to do this on a refurbished laptop that I purchased with a copy of Windows 10 installed.

Ideally, I would like to just move all the crucial files/folder over.
But I have no idea how I set up sTunnel or if I even need it because of all the new Hermes stuff.

Does anyone have a step-by-step checklist to install Eudora 7.1.09 on Windows 10?

I use several personalities and use gmail as the pop server.
I occasionally have important business projects that need a steady email system like I have on Windows 7/Eudora/sTunnel

Any help would be appreciated.

Big fan of this group,
John A Davis

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 14:09:41 -0700 (PDT), John A Davis

Post by John A Davis
Does anyone have a step-by-step checklist to install Eudora 7.1.09 on Windows 10?

Run the installer accepting all defaults.

Install the Hermes SSL files.

Post by John A Davis
I use several personalities and use gmail as the pop server.
I occasionally have important business projects that need a steady email system like I have on Windows 7/Eudora/sTunnel

sTunnel may be the complication -- I've never used it so I don't know
if it is completely passive, or if the mail client had to be configured to
use it as the server, and it then has the configuration(s) for end-point
servers.

Otherwise, I'd say IF the username (Windows login, not email) is the
same in both machines AND the old machine used the default Eudora data
directory (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Qualcomm\Eudora), copy the
Eudora data directory for that user to the new machine.

Start Eudora, register it if needed -- it would (again, if same
username and directory) open with whatever configuration had been in use on
the old machine.


Based upon https://www.stunnel.org/config_windows.html I'd assume
Eudora has been configured to use sTunnel as the server. That means you
will have to go into each personality (if you did the copy shown above) and
change them from using sTunnel (local host) as server, replacing the server
with the actual server of the end-point. I think username/password stays
the same -- sTunnel would have just passed that information through.

[Rick C]

Post by John A Davis
I have used Eudora since the beginning of time. I am currently using it on Windows 7 and it works flawlessly with sTunnel taking care of the certificate problem.
However, the time has come to move to Windows 10. I want to do this on a refurbished laptop that I purchased with a copy of Windows 10 installed.
Ideally, I would like to just move all the crucial files/folder over.
But I have no idea how I set up sTunnel or if I even need it because of all the new Hermes stuff.
Does anyone have a step-by-step checklist to install Eudora 7.1.09 on Windows 10?
I use several personalities and use gmail as the pop server.
I occasionally have important business projects that need a steady email system like I have on Windows 7/Eudora/sTunnel
Any help would be appreciated.
Big fan of this group,
John A Davis

I've moved Eudora every time I've gotten a new computer for the last 20 years, maybe five or six times. Every time I just copy the entire directory over to the new machine.

The only problems I have with Eudora is when I change hosting for my domain where I get my email. The last time I did this I was not understanding the error messages and tried getting help from my hosting provider. They made a token attempt and then threw in the towel. After another day or so I finally realized the error message was actually from having the wrong password for the accounts, but it never said "wrong password". It gave some cryptic error number. Go figure.

Then there are the several recurring bugs that I just live with. Still the best email program I've ever used.

I hope the Hermes developers get something working soon. But I'm not sure how trusting I will be. One reason I've not switched over the years is because Eudora just works and I understand it. Other email programs seem to have weird glitches which can be disastrous. I tried Thunderbird with newsgroups and it worked very well for a couple of years, then took a crap and I could not get it working again. Switched to it's first cousin Seamonkey and it lasted a year or two before taking a crap. Now I use Google Groups and have to put up with the occasional complaints about the lack of line width limiting. At least it works.