by @Macarlo
Windows 2000 Professional Beta Tester
(Screenshots by Embellish)

 Hi, All.
I tested this Sunday April 22 on my Windows 2000 Professional (Workstation) the new Eudora e-mail client version 5.1, an excellent replacement for Outlook Express. This one that I evaluated here is running just fine and I rated it the maximum: Five Butterflies.

The Maximum: 5 Butterflies

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   SPECIAL NOTICE: EUDORA FOR MAC UPDATE!!
   Version: 5.1    File size: 4.6MB    License: Free
   Minimum requirements: PowerPC, Mac OS 8.1

@Macarlo's Mac OS

Mac Eudora fans: Check out the final release of this top-quality e-mail client. Eudora comes loaded with new features, such as   SSL, inline signatures, and a Palm conduit to sync with your address book, making everyday contact with business associates, family, and friends easier and more efficient. E-mail away:
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Using this nice e-mail client you can import ALL accounts, folders, messages etc from your Outlook Express and said good bye to it (see photo above); but, if you prefer, you can follow using Outlook without problems. Another fine and exclusive feature offered by Eudora is his Statistics window - you can see it in the photo below:

Photo above shows Eudora 5.1 receiving e-mails on @Macarlo's Win 2000

Technical Information

Minimum Requirements

To use Windows Eudora Version 5.1, you must have the  following:

-  IBM PC or compatible.

-  Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/Me or Windows NT 4.0 or above.

-  An Internet e-mail account (POP or IMAP) with an Internet

   Service Provider or through a corporate network.

-  Access to your mail account via (1) a modem connection to your

   Internet Service Provider or (2) a direct Internet network connection.  

Installation

To install Eudora:

1.  After downloading the installer, exit any applications you are running.

2.  Click the Start button in the Windows task bar, select Run..., then click the "Browse" button.

3.  Go to the folder where you saved the installer. Choose that file and click "OK".

4.  Read the Welcome screen, then click the Next button.

Photo above shows Eudora 5.1 Setup preparing the install process on Windows 2000

    For the rest of the installation process, click the Next button  to go on to the next step, or click the Back button to return to the previous step.

 5.  Read the Software License Agreement, and if you agree to the  terms, click Yes. Once you've installed Eudora, a copy of the license agreement will be available in the file License.txt in your Eudora directory.

6.  Pick the components you wish to install.

7.  Specify a folder in which to install Eudora (the installer  refers to this as the Destination Program Folder), then click Next.

8.  Specify a folder in which Eudora data files (such as mail,  settings, address books, and email attachments) should be stored.

    The installer refers to this as the Destination Data Folder.

    NOTE: If you've already been using Eudora on this computer, be sure to specify the folder where your existing Eudora data files are located.

9.  The installer will show you the Destination Program Folder and the Destination Program Folder once more. Use the Back button if you need to go back and change them. Click the Next button to proceed with the installation.

9.  Eudora is installed in the destination directory.

10. The installer will offer to place a shortcut to Eudora on your desktop.

11. The installer will offer to display the Readme file (this file).

12. The installer will offer to take you to the accessory download page in your web browser. This gives you an opportunity to download additional tools that can help you use Eudora more effectively, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple QuickTime. The interaction between Eudora and those two  applications is described below.

13. We recommend that you look at the Readme.txt and Relnotes.txt  files in the Eudora directory following installation.

New Features In Eudora 5.1

SSL is now supported in Eudora.

Eudora Shell Extension now warns you when you try to run a file in your Attach directory outside of Eudora.

MIME digests are now handled in Eudora.  It can be enabled in Tools-Options-Attachments.

Last Text Color formatting button saves the last color that you selected for changing the color of the text.  If you press the <shift> key while selecting a color, then that color change would not be retained; otherwise, Last Text Color will take on that changed color. This button is combined with the Color selection button, so the last text color is represented by a small rectangle below the palette.

Find Messages results now supports Transfer, Reply, Reply to All, Forward, and Redirect.  

Words or phrases flagged by MoodWatch are now underlined with chilies.

We added a new style button called Strikeout which will cross out any selected text with a horizontal line.

Eudora And Windows 2000

The security model of Windows 2000 has required us to modify the way Eudora is installed and the way it determines where to create data files -- including mailboxes, email attachments, address books, and so on.

On a Windows 2000 system, only someone with Administrator privileges (hereinafter, an Administrator) can install software in the Program Files folder. Someone with User privileges (hereinafter, a User with a capital U) cannot do so. In fact, a program launched by a User can’t store any data in the Program Files folder or any subfolder of Program Files. Unfortunately, earlier versions of Eudora would try to do exactly that by default; consequently, if an Administrator installed Eudora and a User tried to run it, it would fail to work properly.

With Eudora 5.x under Windows 2000, the default location to install the application is still under Program Files, but the data files are kept in a User’s Application Data folder (typically "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data", where <username> is the User’s login name). The installer lets you pick a different place for Eudora to store data. If only an Administrator is going to be running Eudora, the data can go anywhere at all, but if a User is going to be running Eudora, the data should go in that user’s Application Data folder.

___Finding the data folder___

The Windows 2000 Application Data folder usually has the hidden attribute, which makes it invisible in Windows Explorer or My Computer (unless you’ve configured those tools to display hidden objects). There are good reasons, though, why you might want to explore the folder where your Eudora data is stored; in particular, the email attachments that you’ve received are there, in the Attach subfolder (unless, of course, you’ve told Eudora to store attachments elsewhere). To make this easier, Eudora creates a shortcut to your Eudora data folder in the Application Data folder’s parent folder, which is typically "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>".

___Precisely how Eudora determines its data folder___

Below is the exact sequence of how Eudora determines the folder in which to keep its data files. This applies in all versions of Windows. Most users will have no need of this gory detail, but here it is, just in case:

1. If a folder is specified on Eudora's command line, then Eudora uses that folder.

2. Otherwise, if the program folder (that is, the folder where Eudora is installed) contains a Eudora.ini file, then Eudora uses that folder.

3. Otherwise, if there's a DEudora.ini file in the program folder,    and if the [Settings] section of that file contains a DataFolder setting, and if the folder specified by that setting contains a Eudora.ini file, then Eudora uses that folder.

4. Otherwise, if there is not a UseAppData=1 entry in the [Settings] section of the DEudora.ini file in the program folder, and if either of the registry keys listed below specifies a folder, then Eudora uses that folder. (If both keys list a folder, the first one takes precedence.)

     \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Qualcomm\Eudora\CommandLine

     \\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Software\Qualcomm\Eudora\CommandLine\Current

5. Otherwise, if the system has version 4.71 or higher of Shell32.dll, Eudora uses the current user's Application Data folder.

6. Otherwise, Eudora uses the program folder.As suggested by step 5 above, Eudora's ability to use your Application Data folder really hinges on whether you version 4.71 or higher of Shell32.dll. This is always the case if you're running Windows 2000, and it's also true if you’ve installed version 4.0 or higher of Microsoft Internet Explorer and included the integrated shell in that installation.

Notes Concerning Eudora And:
* Apple Quicktime
* Microsoft Internet Explorer

Eudora's standard message viewer supports basic HTML, such as text formatting and inline images (displaying pictures within the body of a message rather than in a separate window). Some of the supported image formats include .BMP, .jpg, and .PNG files. Installing Apple's QuickTime application adds support to the standard viewer for inline display of a wider range of image (picture) formats such as .gif's. Installing Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), version 4.0 or above, adds an additional message viewer (hereinafter, the Microsoft viewer) to Eudora that can accurately display just about any HTML message you might receive.

You can find an installer for QuickTime on the Eudora web site at <http://eudora.qualcomm.com/download/other>. You can obtain Internet Explorer on the Microsoft web site at <http://www.microsoft.com>.

* Why should I care about displaying HTML messages?

HTML messages (email messages that use HTML, the language of web pages) are becoming more and more common. Most web browsers allow a web page to be sent as an HTML message. If someone sends you an HTML message that uses advanced formatting such as tables, then to see it as it was intended you need to tell Eudora to use the Microsoft viewer instead of its standard message viewer.

* If Eudora has two viewers, how will I tell it which one to use? Just check or uncheck the "Use Microsoft's viewer" checkbox in the Viewing Mail panel of the Options dialog, under the Tools menu in Eudora. The checkbox is checked by default if IE 4.0 or higher is on your system. If IE 3.0 or higher is not on your system, the checkbox is dimmed and you can use only the standard viewer; you can, however, enhance it with QuickTime as described below.

* What if I already have Internet Explorer?

If you already have IE 4.0 or above on your system, Eudora will take advantage of it automatically, as long as you have "Use Microsoft's Viewer" checked as described above.

If you have IE 3.0 on your system, you have two choices:

1. You can upgrade to a more recent version of Internet Explorer.

2. You can leave it alone, in which case Eudora will use IE 3.0 if you    choose "Use Microsoft's viewer" in Eudora's Options dialog.

However, this doesn't provide all the functionality you get with  IE 4.0 or above, or even with the standard viewer - see the details    below.

If you have a version of IE earlier than 3.0 on your system, installing IE 4.0 will not affect it. However, you must have at least  IE 3.0 in order for the "Use Microsoft's viewer" option to take effect.

* What does Eudora's standard viewer support?

  + Bold, italic, and underlined text

  + Different font faces, sizes, and colors

  + Fixed-width text

  + Left and right justification and centering

  + Multiple indentation levels

  + Bulleted lists

  + Hyperlinks (clicking on a URL launches your browser and takes you

    to a web page)

  + Horizontal ruling lines

  + Inline display of BMP images, some JPEG images, and PNG images

* What does QuickTime add to the standard viewer?

  + Inline display of a wider variety of images, including the full set of JPEG formats, GIF, TIFF, Macintosh PICT, etc.

* What does the Microsoft viewer do that the standard one doesn't?

  + Displays GIF and a wider variety of JPEG images inline

  + Automatic inline display of images from web sites

  + Numbered lists

  + Tables and forms

  + International character sets

  + Java applets, JavaScript, and ActiveX controls

  + Dynamic HTML (not if you're using IE 3.0)

  + Other embedded objects (audio, video)

  + Unlike QuickTime, it doesn't display Macintosh PICT images

* What DON'T I get in Eudora if I use IE 3.0 instead of IE 4.0?

  + Dynamic HTML

  + Editing of received messages

  + Running Eudora plug-ins (such as text translators) on received messages

If you're using IE 3.0, you can still edit received messages, and run Eudora plug-ins on them, provided you first switch to the standard viewer by unchecking "Use Microsoft's viewer" in the Options dialog.

If The "Speak" Filter Action Is Grayed Out

You have the option, when setting up a filter, to have Eudora audibly announce, or speak, the subject and/or the name of the sender whenever a message is filtered. (In the case of an outgoing filter, it will speak the name of the recipient rather than the sender.)

In order to use this feature, you need to have a sound card and sound card device driver that are compatible with the version of Windows you're running. You also need to install Microsoft's Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI) and a SAPI-compliant text-to-speech engine.

If those components are not present on your computer, the Speak action will be grayed out in the Filters window. You can remedy this by installing SAPI and Microsoft's text-to-speech engine; installers for both are available on the web at <http://www.eudora.com/download/other>, under the heading "Installing Microsoft's Text-to-Speech Engine".

Security Note

Recent email viruses and worms, such as the notorious "Melissa" and "I Love You", have heightened many people's awareness of the need to be careful with email. For maximum protection, we recommend the following:

1. Change your Eudora attachment directory to something other than the default.

2. Disable JavaScript in your web browser.

3. Leave "(Warn me when I) Launch a program from a message" checked in Tools/Options/Extra Warnings.

4. Leave "Allow executables in HTML content" unchecked in Tools/Options/Viewing Mail.

Consult <http://eudora.qualcomm.com/security.html> for additional information, including instructions for changing your Eudora attachment directory.

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http://www.eudora.com

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http://www.eudora.com/products/eudora/download/

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