Post by v***@cox.netI too like my Eudora - at least I did until I got Windows 7.
Have same problem you mention.
I resorted to launching it by using "Run As Administrator"
A drawback was that it then proceeded to download about 1500 emails.
Then, a week or so later, it launched in the old style;
then had a little problem synchronizing changes I may have made.
Those who properly install Eudora on Windows 7
(use original installer, programs into system protected program files,
user data into either "user's application data folder"
or a folder on another drive), and who run Eudora as a normal user
(not "as admin," no "compatibility mode") have smooth, problem-free sailing.
"Only two disjoint selections at a time from address books"
is due to Microsoft's change in operation of certain "tree controls"
(which operate actually more sensibly now,
but Eudora relies on the earlier stupidity of older versions of Windows)
and can be handled by various alternative, creative work-arounds.
Slow first-time use of SSL (via OpenSSL library) after each Eudora launch
was proven to be due to an extremely inefficient Windows internal function,
but a one-byte patch to Eudora program file QCssl.dll
miraculously overcomes this, thanks to one brilliant forum user,
who figured it out from binary disassembly of an entire module.
Resistance to use of Microsoft's ridiculous need to
"swap MAPI DLLs in a Windows system directory"
can be overcome by adjusting permissions
on Microsoft's own versions of its MAPI DLLs.
Other symptoms such as you describe above
nearly always trace back to bad original installing,
and are a consequence of butting your own head
against the toughened security against common malware
that was engineered into Windows, starting with Vista.
If Microsoft had been just a tiny bit tougher,
bad installations of Eudora would never run at all,
and users would be compelled to correct this at once,
but Windows often pretends to comply by re-directing
disallowed file and registry writing to another private area
for each user, without telling the application program
that it has done this, resulting in schizophrenic
run-time behavior which users do not understand,
and blame instead on the innocent application program.
Other applications do not suffer as much as Eudora
from what is fundamentally an original installation violation,
because the installers of other applications
have never allowed a user to commit the blunder
of trying to store their own personal data files
(in this case mail, settings, address books, etc.)
in the same place as the application's program files,
whereas Eudora had allowed that, going way back
to early versions of Windows which had little security
against malware, and now that original leniency,
however convenient it may have seemed when Eudora
and Windows were both young, has grown into a fatal blunder
for so many who took (and are still taking) advantage
of that leniency, much as youth's habits of their diet,
their staying up all night, smoking, drugs, etc.
are causing serious debilitation in the later life
of those who earlier unknowingly abused themselves.
Post by v***@cox.netBy the way, is it accurate to say
there is no longer any Eudora support?
That depends on the meaning of "support."
As far as I am aware, there is no one in Qualcomm
any more working on developing Eudora,
and no one whose job is to personally help any users,
which was available anyway only to users who paid,
but all paying -- whether by users or by companies
who paid to advertise through Eudora --
ended in April 2007, thus terminating the jobs
of all those whose jobs related to Eudora.
However, Qualcomm keeps the original Eudora web site up at
<http://www.eudora.com/archive.html>
with all its free downloads and profuse documentation,
knowledge base and tutorials (some are even interactive),
and also keeps the Eudora user forums system running at
<http://eudorabb.qualcomm.com>
No one in Qualcomm actually participates in those forums,
any more than they participate here, but a few foolish,
nostalgic, long experienced users still succumb to
the urge to try to help other souls in distress,
also cleaning up the spam and malicious postings
which invade practically any open forum site,
and of course some who don't know what they're talking about
also pitch in with some slightly misguided opinions.
Help via a spam-free subscription mailing list,
instead of via an open forum web site, is available at
<http://www.listmoms.net/eudora-win>
(there is also a separate Eudora-Mac mailing list)
If the name "Katrina" reminds anyone of someone who has
volunteered enormous time and expertise to help others,
she gave up on this newsgroup (and on Eudora forums)
quite a while back, but she continues her personal support,
even as one of the "Listmoms" of that group of mailing lists,
although I believe she limits her own postings to Eudora-Win.
Finally, in this Internet age, a thing called Google,
if skillfully used, in combination with a very fine
Eudora manual (which wouldn't have existed except for
the original profitable business that Eudora once was),
can lead one quickly to a great deal of direct self-help.
In total, there is as much "support" of these kinds for Eudora
as for any other free email application (e.g. Thunderbird),
via the same means -- mostly via user communities
"staffed" by tired volunteers, and by self-motivated users.
In the end, "you get what you pay for,"
and like a sewer, as Tom Lehrer once quipped,
"what you get out of it depends on what you put into it" :)
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