John:
I would have to agree with Troy's comments about Thunderbird. I am using it
with IMAP on Windows, Linux, and Sun Solaris platforms. The "junk mail"
controls are easily configurable, especially if you do not want the SPAM
immediately discarded. It takes a little bit of time for the software
to "learn"
what is SPAM. Doesn't catch it all, but does a pretty good job of
catching most
of the garbage.
Unless your Director absolutely needs to have Eudora, you may want to give
Thunderbird a try. It isn't always easy for people to change, but at
least there
are alternatives available.
Jim
PS: Probably not a bad time to take look at the Firefox browser instead
of IE if
you haven't done so already as well.
>Are there any happy users of Eudora 6.2 and IMAP at mail.msu.edu ?
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>I use Eudora 6.2 with our own IMAP server, but we don't have good spam filtering, and perhaps never will. Our Director needs better spam filtering, so I suggested she get her mail through the main campus server. But she keeps experiencing problems, the latest of which is a folder full of JUNK messages disappearing just before she had a chance to move them to another mailbox. She had verified their presence via webmail just before they disappeared.
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>Anyhow, I just now learned about esoteric.epi and eudora.log which I'm hoping we can use to pinpoint these things more precisely. But I'm wondering if there really is a large base of happy Eudora 6.2 users of IMAP at MSU, or if we should not expect it to be trouble-free. Our Director probably stresses the system a little more than some people would. She regularly accesses her mail from two different computers. A week or so ago I suggested that she be very conscious of when her Eudora is fired up on both computers simultaneously, and she has been taking care to avoid that circumstance since then.
>
>John Gorentz
>W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
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James T. Brown
UNIX Systems Administrator
Geography/Fisheries & Wildlife
Michigan State University
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