If you're planning to revert to MailForge, you can also import your Mail.app files. Mining through my own very old Eudora Mail Folders has been an interesting exercise - almost like being transported back in time. It'll chew up perhaps 60 to 80 percent of both cores on a C2D MBP. This import gets off to a slow start and isn't highly responsive, so be patient. These are the e-mails that you perhaps didn't bother to bring into the Mail.app when you switched, if you did, and you'd just as soon keep those old archives in a Eudora-compatible app. The first thing you may want to do is import your very old old Eudora Mailbox, typically found in /Users/username/Documents/Eudora Folder/Mail Folder. While the current version is not written in Cocoa, for the sake of cross-platform compatibility, the developer lead, Matt Milano, told this reviewer that they plan to migrate to Cocoa in the future for the Mac version. Juggling multiple windows in Mac OS X Spaces is tricky, so Spaces users will especially appreciate the Unified Mode. MailForge can integrate all that into a single window. Originally, Eudora was keen on lots of separate windows for the inbox, the icon bar, and various accounts. One concession to a modern Mac app is the Unified Mode shown above. Easily navigate through e-mail messages.Easily redirect messages, preserving original sender.Cut down on Junk e-mails with a built-in Junk mail filter system.Schedule when outgoing e-mails will be sent.Quickly search through thousands of e-mails.Some current features of MailForge include: The developer told this reviewer that the Intel and PPC versions are identical, separated out simply to keep the download size small. One for PowerPC and Mac OS 10.3 or later, one for Intel Macs and Mac OS X 10.3 or later and one for Windows 2000 or later. In one respect, a principal motivation to use MailForge is to import all your old e-mail files for the sake of posterity, history, legal reasons or research, (and maybe some nostalgia) and keep the files migrating forward in time on Intel Macs. In addition, the developers of MailForge haven't made any statements about moving Eudora, from where it was in 2006, to include today's more common e-mail features. On the other hand, some of the more obscure Eudora features, such as the MoodWatch, seem arcane by today's standards. Considering how little real thought has been put into Mail.app, one might claim that Eudora -> MailForge is good enough. Whether an e-mail program that thrived in the 90s and up unti 2006 can compete today is debatable. is to recreate the most commonly used features, with more and more of the extremely advanced (and sometimes obscure) features being added with each update." It is under active development, now at version 1.3.4, can import your old Eudora e-mail, and, like the original Eudora, is available for Mac and PC. Moving to MailForge has considerable advantages. While it will still run under Rosetta, there are minor gotchas to deal with. That was version 6.2.4 released on and remains a PPC application only. The goal of the MailForge app is to duplicate, to the extent possible, the features of the last version of Eudora. Finally, some users who are perfectly happy with Thunderbird 3 or Mail.app will wonder what the fuss is about and shrug. Also, some users with an inherent distaste for Apple's Mail.app may be looking for something simpler and more focused. We tend to get attached to e-mail programs, and I have discovered that even today there are fanatical fans of Claris - and an active support group. Some long time users of Eudora may wish to return to an app with similar look and functionality. There are several reasons to be interested in MailForge. Wikipedia has a short history, and Charles Moore, back in May 2009, summarized the development of MailForge and how it differs from Eudora 8, mentioned at the end of this review. To fully appreciate what Infinity Data Systems has done, one must be aware of the history of Eudora. Those who are happy with Apple's Mail.app will wonder what all the fuss is about. Those who were bumped off the Eudora bandwagon and want to climb back aboard will welcome MailForge. Today, MailForge, from Infinity Data Systems, continues the spirit and tradition of Eudora as a ground up rewrite. ) But as time passed, events conspired to force Eudora to end of life. In the 1990s, the heyday of Macintosh e-mail programs, Eudora shone with a strong light.
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