Eudora Pro 4.2 (5-User)

by Qualcomm, Inc.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002S77U
• Item model number: 10-47877-4
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,677 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #14 in Software > Business & Office > Communication > E-mail > E-mail Clients
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From Winmag®

Qualcomm chose the right path with its Eudora Pro Email 4.2 upgrade. The venerable Internet e-mail program didn't need new functionality; it needed to be easier to use and less tedious to operate. Version 4.2 takes a step toward addressing those issues, which is why we suggest you upgrade.

The new Eudora Pro, which I tested in beta, adds autocompletion features to the To:, CC: and BCC: lines. You can also open a drop-down menu of available names to modify your choice.

One of the more useful features in this upgrade is the ability to change a "personality" (an e-mail account or an identity) in a new message via a drop-down menu. There was no way to do this with an outbound message in previous versions. The 4.2 program also offers new spell-checking features.

Other usability features include an improved message-searching facility. You can search one folder, all folders or user-specified sets, employing up to five search criteria at once. In addition, text-to-speech technology enables the program to speak either the name of the sender or the subject for senders you specify. There's also a new Sticky Sort feature that allows mailboxes to stay permanently sorted by one or more mailbox columns.

Qualcomm still has a way to go to perfect Eudora Pro's ease of use. Its mail personalities are far too difficult to manage, and in particular, there's no easy way to set the dominant, or default, personality. Meanwhile, Microsoft is making a concerted effort for its Outlook Express to steal the Internet e-mail throne. For now, Eudora Pro Email 4.2 hangs on to the top spot and replaces version 4.1 on our WinList. But stay tuned for our upcoming REVIEW: of Outlook Express 5.0 to see if Eudora Pro retains the crown.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ripped by Qualcomm (Eudora), June 17, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Eudora Pro 4.2 (5-User) (CD-ROM)

"This is the by far worst experience I've had with a software company. Eudora is a buggy and convoluted program and so is the way the company is run. Expect voice mail to hang up on you and email tech support to take 3 weeks. Upon discovering all of this I quickly requested a refund which I've never gotten. They emailed their "return request" form called "letter of destruction" (???) to me at an incorrect email address. Later, they got it right but when I snail mailed the form back to them they lost it and then would not refund me because it was past 30 days. Beware."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Unreliable with high volumes of email, weak spam guard, January 4, 2003

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California Dreamin "sr538" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eudora Pro 4.2 (5-User) (CD-ROM)

Eudora 3.x and 4.x become unreliable with thousands of emails in the Inbox. The symptom is a message saying that the Inbox table of contents is corrupt, and offering to rebuild. If you say YES you will probably loose all your email permanently! The correct answer is to say no, exit Eudora, then use File Find to locate inbox.toc and delete this file, which will delete the table of contents but not the email. Then Eudora can recover.

Another suggestion that has improved the reliability for me is to have an automatic filter that copies all messages from Inbox into Inboxsafe, which might be slightly less vulnerable to corruption. The last suggestion is to make sure the boxes don't get very full. Don't take vacations :(

Regarding spamguard, there is no spamguard built in to Eudora. I have set up filters that detect and delete common spam, but have not been able to figure out how to automatically forward this spam to spamcop.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good stuff..., June 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Eudora Pro 4.2 (5-User) (CD-ROM)

A really good product. easy to setup and use. multiple personalities for multiple people using the same computer and/or multiple accounts. Works great... good support