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I recently aquired a new iBook system and wanted my e-mail accessible on both that as well as my current Dell laptop. Up to that pointed I had been using Outlook 2k3 via a POP3 connection to mail.msu.edu and had the Outlook Junk Filter set to block anything from anyone not in my address book or on the "safe list". It of course caught just about everything, as I had told it, and then I would selectively go through and add to the safe list what was valid. I think it did the best job so far. Once I changed it from POP3 to IMAP, the connection and reading my mail was HORRIBLE. Outlook 2k3 does the absolute worst job access the mail server through IMAP (at least over my 31.2k dial-up). I installed Thunderbird on my Dell system to replace Outlook and it behaves much, much nicer! However, between Outlook 2k3, Thunderbird and Mac OS X Mail.app, the OS X Mail.app does the best job with IMAP and reading through threaded messages. Just my .02 -t James T. Brown wrote: > 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 ? >> >> 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. >> >> 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 >> >> >> > > > -- > ======================================== > James T. Brown > UNIX Systems Administrator > Geography/Fisheries & Wildlife > Michigan State University > > email: [log in to unmask] > -- Troy Murray [log in to unmask] Phone: 517-231-6073 AIM: troymurray72 Web: http://msuhla.chm.msu.edu/ Blog: http://troymen.blogspot.com/