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I’ve been a Eudora user for 7 years. Seven long years I’ve kept and filed every (useful) mail that I’ve ever received and despite storing gigs of data locally it still shits on Outlook (which I’m forced to use at work) in terms of flexibility, message filtering, spam filtering and (crucially) searching.

It was with some trepidation then that I undertook the likely massive and potentially disastrous task of migrating to Thunderbird. Reason? My new mail host uses SSL with a cert provided by freessl and despite appearing to have very simple certificate management Eudora simply wouldn’t let me connect to the new host. I tested it with (spit) Outlook Express and Thunderbird and both had no issues at all, so rather than being a right royal pain in the arse and giving Doug more work than he needed I decided to “upgrade” (Doug’s words) to Thunderbird.

Changing mail client (particularly one with lots and lots of locally stored mail) is always really bloody scary, and usually fraught with difficulty. Eudora to Thunderbird however is a piece of cake. Open Thunderbird. Click Import. Select Eudora. Wait a couple of hours. Job done. I’m impressed. Seriously impressed. And it’s very nice to use as well. I have a feeling I won’t be missing Eudora, which is weird given it’s been a constant companion for so long.