From: Don Wiss on
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Alfred Molon <alfred_molon(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>Is there any reason to switch from Eudora 7 to Eudora 8? I installed
>Eudora 8 (8.0b8) on my computer. It took a very long time to import all
>emails from Eudora 7, then it started indexing all emails. After several
>hours I closed Eudora 8. Eudora 8 seems a bit slow compared to Eudora 7.

I am not ready to even considering switching. I have hundreds of filters. I
have 247 mailboxes. My Eudora data folder is 1.56 GB. Maybe days to index?

Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).
From: C A Upsdell on
On 2010-03-08 16:54, Jim Higgins wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:31:00 -0500, Don Wiss<donwiss(a)no_spam.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Alfred Molon<alfred_molon(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any reason to switch from Eudora 7 to Eudora 8? I installed
>>> Eudora 8 (8.0b8) on my computer. It took a very long time to import all
>>> emails from Eudora 7, then it started indexing all emails. After several
>>> hours I closed Eudora 8. Eudora 8 seems a bit slow compared to Eudora 7.
>>
>> I am not ready to even considering switching. I have hundreds of filters. I
>> have 247 mailboxes. My Eudora data folder is 1.56 GB. Maybe days to index?
>
> Eudora 8 is simply not ready as a general replacement for Eudora 7.
>
> I could ignore the time to index if the program were anywhere near as
> feature rich and easy to use as Eudora 7, but it isn't.

Yeah. Myself, I need support for wildcard filters, and it looks like I
will have to wait a long, long time for this essential feature.