Ye Olde Eudora Mail - on SPARK. . . any clues please?

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technico

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#175582 4-Jul-2015 20:49

This is a long shot, but client has thousands of emails on Eudora -
which has been issue free for 10 years or more.

Problem is, it no longer works (send OR receive) on Spark since they
changed servers/settings and they don't want to know about support for it.

Sending: Have tried all possible combinations of port (465 or 587)
and SSL option - no joy.

Receiving: Also U/S.

Eudora Error messages include 10053 and 10100 'server got tired of waiting'.

Any still using Eudora on Spark who could offer some pointers pls?

TIA

rhy7s

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#1337092 4-Jul-2015 21:26

Just checking if you've tried different variants of the username, with or without the domain name?

marpada

475 posts

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#1337095 4-Jul-2015 21:37

Do other mail clients work?

technico

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#1337096 4-Jul-2015 21:43

Thanks for fast repsonse - yes, have tried these.

technico

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#1337098 4-Jul-2015 21:45

Spark and Openhost both work fine using Thunderbird;
client not prepared to trudge back to Outlook (!)

Thanks.

old3eyes

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#1337208 5-Jul-2015 08:53

Give up on it. Eudora doesn't support a lot of the new security features these days. I used to use it to access my home email from work via Spark and it would always fail. I found that EM Client was pretty good
http://www.emclient.com

Regards,

Old3eyes

quickymart

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#1337269 5-Jul-2015 11:40

People still use Eudora? How about Pegasus? Claris?

linw

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#1337275 5-Jul-2015 12:09

Or pigeons?

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Inphinity

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#1337301 5-Jul-2015 13:49

Oh dear, are they trying to get you to make Netscape Navigator 3 work with a modern online banking site, too?
You are really trying to push a 100 ton boulder up a greased hill, even the far more modern Eudora OSE was abandoned by it's development team a few years back as being too outdated and untenable to support.

technico

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#1337477 5-Jul-2015 20:39

Thanks, rhy7s, old3eyes and marpada for the serious suggestions.

Yabanize

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#1337492 5-Jul-2015 21:31

Inphinity: Oh dear, are they trying to get you to make Netscape Navigator 3 work with a modern online banking site, too?
You are really trying to push a 100 ton boulder up a greased hill, even the far more modern Eudora OSE was abandoned by it's development team a few years back as being too outdated and untenable to support.

Email clients haven't exactly changed much

1101

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#1337881 6-Jul-2015 14:15

Im pretty sure Eudora will still work.

I only stopped using it as it wouldnt display some html emails correctly . I went to thunderbird .
But honestly, it is time to dump Eudora. They can still use it to check old email. Importing contacts etc will be painfull however.

tdgeek

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#1337885 6-Jul-2015 14:25

Yabanize:
Inphinity: Oh dear, are they trying to get you to make Netscape Navigator 3 work with a modern online banking site, too?
You are really trying to push a 100 ton boulder up a greased hill, even the far more modern Eudora OSE was abandoned by it's development team a few years back as being too outdated and untenable to support.

Email clients haven't exactly changed much

Not in look and feel, but in what settings they support will have

Aredwood

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#1341536 12-Jul-2015 11:42

quickymart: People still use Eudora? How about Pegasus? Claris?

I still use Pegasus mail. It connects just fine to the Orcon mail servers via SSL. Although I'm slowly migrating to Gmail.

askelon

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#1341573 12-Jul-2015 13:58

I converted one of my customers all over to Thunderbird with the penelope extension. Cant find it anymore though so it looks like qualcomm scrapped it totally. To be honest most of the people at that place ended up scrapping the penelope plugin pretty quickly and just using Thunderbird outright.

lapimate

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#1341803 12-Jul-2015 21:11

Is your client using Spark/Xtra/Telecom Business Mail? (mail.telecombusinesshub.co.nz)

I have been using Eudora 7 ( ... W7) on Spark/Xtra/Telecom successfully for ages; now transitioning to Outlook 2010 on W10 Insider Preview via Aid4Mail. (Need to take account of any changes in locations of Eudora attachments folder over the years, but Aid4Mail has provision for that.)