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   Review - Eudora for Windows

   8.0.0 Beta 9 (Oct 28, 2010)

   The other reviews above are far too severe, IMHO. I've been a Eudora user continuously since 1996 and I transitioned to the open source beta program in 2007. It was initially a very rough transition, but each beta has gotten notably better.
   
   Many of the snarkier comments in other reviews here can be overcome by the judicious use of plug-ins (there might be 20 significant ones and 120 other ones).
   
   With those plug-ins come things that Eudora NEVER had:
   * a serious contact manager that syncs with Google mail
   * a serious calendar that syncs with Google calendars
   * automatic backup of calendars and address books
   * ability to swallow/read Outlook mail attachments and calendar events
   * email blasting and mail-merge
   * customizable buttons and menu bars
   * a good indexer for searches
   * hundreds of configuration variables (most of these can be completely ignored, but Eudora 8 is way more configurable than 7)
   
   With all these features comes an unavoidable consequence: memory bloat. I have 14 years worth of mail and several calendars and 10 email boxes, so after the software has been running a few minutes and all the caches are warmed up we're talking >250 MB memory footprint.