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Eudora 5.1b16 makes strides under OS X
A couple of months ago I made a pronouncement...I was convinced that Mail.app was the best e-mail client for use under OS X. I may have been right at the time, but after a couple of months dealing with the limitations of Mail.app, I was looking around for other options last week when Qualcomm unveiled the latest version of Eudora for OS X. Despite my experiences with the first version, I was ready to give the venerable old e-mail program another chance, and this new beta is worth the effort. The main drawback to the previous Eudora version for OS X was its speed....simply moving from one mail to another in the listing was painfully slow. That has improved significantly in 5.1b16. It isn't as fast as performing normal operations as using Eudora under OS 9.x, but it comes close enough for consideration. Eudora does still suffer from its aging user interface, but for Mac users who are used to working with the program, this is the first version to run under OS X that offers nearly acceptable performance. So, why would I consider switching from Mail.app to Eudora? Well, despite its sleek interface and simple, functional features, Mail.app lacks serious filtering capabilities. And, if you live and die by e-mail, or if you keep a large archive of your e-mail, you may be like me and consider a more established application like Eudora. Here are a few things that Eudora offers that Mail.app still can't touch:
- multiple filters with and/or capabilities and up to five actions that can be performed on each filter
But Eudora does have limitations. As I mention above, it is slower under OS X at this point than it is under OS 9.x versions. It also has an aging user interface that feels very clunky under the slick new environment of OS X. But at this point, for a serious e-mail user, Eudora has lept ahead of Mail.app. Rob McNair-Huff has written about Macs and how to make the most of them in everyday use and business since 1996.
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