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Re: MailForge dead

From David Morrison <davidmor@excite.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.mail.eudora.mac, comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows
Subject Re: MailForge dead
References <160120141013101700%timstreater@greenbee.net>
Date 2014-01-17 09:50 +1100
Message-ID <davidmor-E7F46F.09500917012014@news.internode.on.net> (permalink)
Organization Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com

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In article <160120141013101700%timstreater@greenbee.net>,
 Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> I'm not entirely surprised. The project changed hands 18 months ago
> after being given up on by the original author, who clearly had little
> programming experience. I suspect it was a mess internally and needed
> to be scrapped and restarted from scratch, rather than bodged around
> with.

I have to say though that I am not sure Matt Milano or even Mike 
realised fully what they were letting themselves in for. Or in fact had 
much experience with a large project like this.

I guess we are all going to have to pick something from the current crop 
of mail programs to move to. It's not an experience I am looking forward 
to. I have been using Apple Mail in parallel with Eudora in a Parallels 
virtual machine (Snow Leopard). Mail is usable like this, but 
frustrating in so many ways.

It would actually be tolerable to continue using Eudora in a virtual 
machine - it's just like having it in a screen space. What is a pain 
though is handling attachments - getting received ones to the host, and 
attaching files on the host to outgoing messages. I end up sometimes 
installing apps on the virtual machine and opening the attachments 
there, although this is a pain and sometimes doesn't work anyway. :-(

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MailForge dead Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-16 10:13 +0000
  Re: MailForge dead David Morrison <davidmor@excite.com> - 2014-01-17 09:50 +1100
    Re: MailForge dead Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-17 00:19 +0000
      Re: MailForge dead David Morrison <davidmor@excite.com> - 2014-01-18 11:37 +1100
      Re: MailForge dead "R. Millstein" <usenet@spamaway.rlm.net> - 2014-01-18 15:06 -0800
        Re: MailForge dead Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-18 23:43 +0000
          Re: MailForge dead "R. Millstein" <usenet@spamaway.rlm.net> - 2014-01-18 16:45 -0800
          Re: MailForge dead Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-01-18 20:31 -0500
            Re: MailForge dead "R. Millstein" <usenet@spamaway.rlm.net> - 2014-01-19 09:33 -0800
          Re: MailForge dead David Morrison <davidmor@excite.com> - 2014-01-20 15:45 +1100
            Re: MailForge dead Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-22 08:56 +0000
              Re: MailForge dead David Morrison <davidmor@excite.com> - 2014-01-23 01:42 +1100
                Re: MailForge dead Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-22 15:23 +0000
                Re: MailForge dead David Morrison <davidmor@excite.com> - 2014-01-23 09:56 +1100
                Re: MailForge dead Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-22 16:26 +0000
                Re: MailForge dead David Morrison <davidmor@excite.com> - 2014-01-23 10:02 +1100
                Re: MailForge dead Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-22 23:19 +0000
              Re: MailForge dead richgr@panix.com (Rich Greenberg) - 2014-01-23 20:03 +0000
              Re: MailForge dead Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-01-23 18:19 -0500
              Re: MailForge dead David Morrison <davidmor@excite.com> - 2014-06-18 15:55 +1000
                Re: MailForge dead Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-06-18 19:53 -0700
                Re: MailForge dead Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-19 02:58 +0000
                Re: MailForge dead Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-19 03:14 +0000
                Re: MailForge dead Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-06-18 22:45 -0700
                Re: MailForge dead billy@MIX.COM - 2014-06-19 10:34 +0000
                Re: MailForge dead Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-06-19 21:18 -0700
                Re: MailForge dead Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-20 16:13 +0000
                Re: MailForge dead Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-19 16:02 +0000
                Re: MailForge dead Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-06-19 21:20 -0700
                Re: MailForge dead Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-20 16:15 +0000
      Re: MailForge dead cvb@compuserve.com - 2014-01-31 00:56 -0800
        Re: MailForge dead Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-31 10:08 +0000
    Re: MailForge dead peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) - 2014-01-17 07:23 +0000
      Re: MailForge dead David Morrison <davidmor@excite.com> - 2014-01-18 11:50 +1100
        Re: MailForge dead David Morrison <davidmor@excite.com> - 2014-01-18 11:52 +1100
        Re: MailForge dead peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) - 2014-01-19 10:39 +0000
        Re: MailForge dead kmorgan@spamcop.net (Kathy Morgan) - 2014-01-21 13:57 -0900
      Re: MailForge dead kmorgan@spamcop.net (Kathy Morgan) - 2014-01-21 13:57 -0900
      Re: MailForge dead Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-01-31 10:33 +0100
        Re: MailForge dead Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-31 12:37 +0000
          Re: MailForge dead Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-01-31 21:16 +0100
            Re: MailForge dead Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-01 17:02 +0000
              Re: MailForge dead Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-02-02 00:12 +0100
    Re: MailForge dead dont.spam.usenet@googlemail.com (Hauke Fath) - 2014-01-17 14:37 +0100
      Re: MailForge dead Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-17 15:21 +0000
        Re: MailForge dead dont.spam.usenet@googlemail.com (Hauke Fath) - 2014-01-17 19:03 +0100
          Re: MailForge dead Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-17 18:59 +0000
            Re: MailForge dead dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2014-01-18 10:48 +0000
              Re: MailForge dead Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-18 13:12 -0800
                Re: MailForge dead nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-18 16:45 -0500
                Re: MailForge dead snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) - 2014-02-03 22:46 +0000

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