Eudora woes

Morbus was recently bashing my long term mail application Eudora and it seems to be about time for someone to take them to task. Since my yearly contract (that's how the pay version works now) is just about up it's time to start spanking them a bit about places they've fallen significantly behind.

I've been using Eudora since the 1.1 (or so) versions in 1992. I've tried in the last few years to move to other mail applications, but they've all adopted the idiotic (to me) three pane interface that makes me insane. I need my multiple windows just to keep things moving (I'm never working on one thing in one place at any time in mail, just like in the Finder). Perhaps it's just me, but what others see as chaos I see as orchestrated organization.

That said, the filtering rule sets in Eudora are pitiful. As Iff pointed out, you get only two conditions for each rule (and those have relatively limited wiring). Search has had a 'More' button to add conditions (rules) to searches for quite some time now, just how freaking hard would it be to add that to filtering? Yes, they'd need a new filtering resource format (well golly gee!) but let's just do it, OK?

Let's see, what else can I whine about? How about the fact that they still use an mbox format with legacy Mac line endings (\r versus \n which made a lot of sense back in 1989)? Would it be that hard to customize for OsX after three years? If I want to shuffle around mbox files I have to do a line ending conversion (not a huge deal, but a pain in the arse non the less).

Finally, let's talk about attachments. The simple fact that they don't leave the attachments with the message in the mbox means that the mail I move elsewhere is incomplete, not to mention the fact that I've got all kinds of crap strewn about in an attachments directory. The interesting thing is that they deal with mbox files which have attachments in the message if I bring them in from elsewhere (and do the line ending shuffle).

I don't know. Maybe I ought to give Apple's Mail.app another shot, especially since PGP support might never again show up in Eudora. If I can find a way to use it without ever touching the mouse it might be OK.