Yes, eudora will work on win 7 both 32bit and 64bit. jaws 12 and 13 both work well with eudora; jaws 13 beta seems a bit snappier loading messages.
I am no Outhouse Explosion refugee, have only used OE on a very limited basis. Both programs have their respective strengths and weaknesses. You can have both installed on your system at the same time; IN fact, most of us on here who are fulltime Eudora users probably dind't bother to uninstall Outlook Express. The two can coexist peacefully. You will have to decide which one you want to have as your default email client, i.e. which email program will come up when you click on a "mailto'" link or click the "send to email" from your context menu when you want to attach a file. If you know how to, you can even set up Eudora to work from a flash drive but this is a bit complex maybe if you have never used Eudora.
Anyway, I suggest you try out eudora alongside OE. If you have a secondary email account like hotmail or something similar that you do notuse for your regular email, you could just set this up to play with. If you have only one email account, just configure Eudora to "leave mail on server" when you set it up so that you can still download mail with outlook express even if checked email with Eudora. The feature I like most about Eudora is how it handles email attachments. Eudora detaches attachments automatically as they are downloaded and stores them in an attachment folder. This makes it possible to keep an email message without the attachment taking up disk space. (Outlook Express and most other email programs treat attachments as part of the mesage and store them within the message.) For example, if someone sends me a message with a picture attached, i might want to keep the message itself but not the picture that i can't see anyway. One feature of OE on the other hand that is useful are its ability to handle different identities. This comes in handy when several people use the same computer and you do not want to set up different user accounts for each.
to me Eudora has the more powerful message filters (called message rules in OE) but this may just be because I am more familiar with Eudora.
Eudora 7.1.09 is probably the best version to use on win 7. Eudora 8.0 or, as it is now called , Eudora-OS (OS is short for open source)does not have much in common with classic Eudora but is really just mozilla Thunderbird on steroids. If you want to go that route, it is IMO better if you get mOzilla Thunderbird and maybe add the Penelope extension that adds some Eudora keystrokes and such.
does anyone know if there are any Eudora tutorials available sttill?Just try out the different email programs and see which one works best for you and wwhich you like the best.
Cheers, Doris At 06:19 PM 10/5/2011 -0400, you wrote:
Good Evening,My tech is putting the finishing touches on my new Windows 7 machine and we are discussing which e-mail client to use since Outlook Express won't be an option. I have an old post saved from somewhere that people were using Eudora 7.1.0.9 with Win7. I'll primarily be using JAWS 12 and probably 13 when the final version is released, but I'm trying to learn Window-Eyes 7.5.1. What is the most accessible version of Eudora to tell him that folks are using now?Is Eudora anything like OE 6? Is first letter navigation in the folder list possible in Eudora? What features does Eudora have that users especially like that might appeal to this OE refugee? What are the disadvantages of the program?Would it be possible to test drive Eudora on my XP Home machine with OE still on it so I can see how I like it while I'm waiting for the new machine to be delivered?Any information and comparisons between Outlook Express and Eudora would be greatly appreciated.Thank you, Margaret List web page: //www.freelists.org/webpage/blindeudora Send all list problems or inquires to: blindeudora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to un subscribe: blindeudora-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field
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