Few love Eudora more than me. While it is old and creaky in places, sports an outdated UI ,and lacks the modernity of Mac OS X, it is fast, stable, incredibly simple, and does the job with aplomb (as long as you don't need HTML email).

To call version 8 beta an improvement or even give it the name EUDORA is not only a travesty, but insulting. Is this a marketing joke, do the "developers" think we are that stupid? All they did was take the Penelope plug-in, which has been stuck in the .1 alpha stage for the better part of a year, and attach it to a current version of Thunderbird. The last time I checked, .1 alpha meant early testing and not very feature full or stable. To translate that, to calling the product a full version change (ala 8.0.0) is a farce at least and dishonest at worst. "Classic" Eudora and this imposter have very little in common. If I wanted to use Thunderbird, I would, but I use Eudora for the fact that it is Eudora.

It would have been far better to release the product when it was actually somewhat finished. I appreciate that the developers are trying to keep an old dinosaur from dying and bring it back to relevance, but this is worse that just letting it go to final sleep in the software graveyard. I will stick with version 6.2.4, and while I will keep track of the project, and pray for something better, I am not counting on it. At this point the credibility of the project is in tatters. They are going to have to do one heck of a job to restore my faith.

We need a new Eudora that keeps the beautiful simplicity, speed, power, and incredible stability of the classic Eudora while adding a modern interface, good html email support (blech!), much better (modern) SMTP support, and a host of other features that never happened while others were innovating. In more and more cases, I use Apple Mail with customers, and I try to eliminate that hellacious Entourage (though its constant failures sure keep me busy) .Though, those still happy using Eudora, I encourage to continue forward. If it works why bother changing. How many PowerPC applications are so good that they still work great on Intel processors? Not many, and classic Eudora is one of them. Until I find something better, I will stay with classic Eudora, and this new 8.0.0 sham is not only NOT better, it is laughable. Try again.