Outlook/Eudora question

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-07-06 01:04am

Okay, so after using Eudora as my e-mail client for about three months now, I've decided I really don't like it. Outlook is a lot more user-friendly to me (unless someone's got a better suggestion for me?). So.. what I need to ask is.. how do I import my Eudora messages to Outlook? I know how to do it, but where are Eudora messages stored by default?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-07-06 02:35am

Have you tried Thunderbird? The import wizzard can bring all your settings and miscelany from Outlook and Eudora and it's very user friendly. Especially in that it doesn't nuke your computer with viriuses.

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-07-07 12:58am

Uhm.. not exactly inclined to actually use anything from Mozilla, really.

Any other suggestions? Maybe an answer?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-07-07 01:41am

Why not the opera client?
And what's wrong with Eudora? Looks just as easy to use as Outlook.
Other than that, ask someone for a gmail account.

Anything but Outlook and Outlook Express.

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-07-07 02:12am

Pu-239 wrote:Why not the opera client?
And what's wrong with Eudora? Looks just as easy to use as Outlook.
Other than that, ask someone for a gmail account.

Anything but Outlook and Outlook Express.

Completely forgot about it?

So how do I import old Eudora messages?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-07-07 03:29am

Mail->Manage Accounts->New and there should be an option for import

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-07-07 03:31am

What do you have against mozilla products, just wondering?

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-07-07 03:38am

darthdavid wrote:What do you have against mozilla products, just wondering?

To me, they're not very user-friendly. To me.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-07-07 03:39am

Probably the sluggish interface. I hate mozilla products too- I just like the rendering engine for browsers(Gecko) (I use Galeon, a gecko-based browser, since Firefox is a bit slow and there is the goddamned profile locking).

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-07-07 03:41am

Pu-239 wrote:Probably the sluggish interface. I hate mozilla products too- I just like the rendering engine for browsers(Gecko) (I use Galeon, a gecko-based browser, since Firefox is a bit slow and there is the goddamned profile locking).

Well, the main reason I don't use Mozilla is the inability for me to be able to open new tabs from links... Opera, it's easy to do. Plus, I don't like the scrolling interface for Mozilla. It goes... weird. Somewhere between smooth scrolling and not. Don't like it at all.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-07-07 03:43am

verilon wrote:
Pu-239 wrote:Probably the sluggish interface. I hate mozilla products too- I just like the rendering engine for browsers(Gecko) (I use Galeon, a gecko-based browser, since Firefox is a bit slow and there is the goddamned profile locking).
Well, the main reason I don't use Mozilla is the inability for me to be able to open new tabs from links... Opera, it's easy to do. Plus, I don't like the scrolling interface for Mozilla. It goes... weird. Somewhere between smooth scrolling and not. Don't like it at all.

Huh? It's middle click or control click, and you can make it not automatically focus to the next tab with an extension (or not, haven't used Mozilla in awhile). And I dunno, Opera seems pretty complex to me (probably me being dumbed down by using GNOME apps too much, when I should be using more command line programs

).

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-07-07 03:55am

Pu-239 wrote:Huh? It's middle click or control click, and you can make it not automatically focus to the next tab with an extension (or not, haven't used Mozilla in awhile). And I dunno, Opera seems pretty complex to me (probably me being dumbed down by using GNOME apps too much, when I should be using more command line programs ).

Oh, ok. I prefer right-click > Open in new page/Open in background page. -shrugs-

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-07-07 04:01am

If you don't like Thunderbird (huh?) and if you wanna get away from Eudora (eew, imo), then you could try Pegasus Mail. Personally though it's not as good as Thunderbird.

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-07-07 04:02am

Shinova wrote:If you don't like Thunderbird (huh?) and if you wanna get away from Eudora (eew, imo), then you could try Pegasus Mail. Personally though it's not as good as Thunderbird.

It's not that I don't like Thunderbird, it's that I'm not inclined to try it because I don't like Mozilla.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-07-07 04:02am

verilon wrote:
Pu-239 wrote:Huh? It's middle click or control click, and you can make it not automatically focus to the next tab with an extension (or not, haven't used Mozilla in awhile). And I dunno, Opera seems pretty complex to me (probably me being dumbed down by using GNOME apps too much, when I should be using more command line programs ).
Oh, ok. I prefer right-click > Open in new page/Open in background page. -shrugs-

There's right-click, open in new window too.

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-07-07 04:11am

Pu-239 wrote:
verilon wrote:
Pu-239 wrote:Huh? It's middle click or control click, and you can make it not automatically focus to the next tab with an extension (or not, haven't used Mozilla in awhile). And I dunno, Opera seems pretty complex to me (probably me being dumbed down by using GNOME apps too much, when I should be using more command line programs ).
Oh, ok. I prefer right-click > Open in new page/Open in background page. -shrugs-
There's right-click, open in new window too.

I know, but that's another window, not another tab.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-07-07 04:32am

Oops, I meant tab

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-07-07 10:40pm

Pu-239 wrote:Anything but Outlook and Outlook Express.

Outlook's not too bad so long as you kill the preview pane, and AutoPreview is really nice. It certainly loads up a helluva lot faster than Mozilla.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-07-08 12:02am

Uraniun235 wrote:
Pu-239 wrote:Anything but Outlook and Outlook Express.
Outlook's not too bad so long as you kill the preview pane

That's a pretty serious deficiency.

Then again, my outlook clone (Evolution 1.5) has died and I can't revive it (Especially not going to download source over dialup), so I'm waiting for a Gmail invite. If it's bad enough, I'll just switch to mutt (should have been using that in the first place, but meh).

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-07-08 12:46am

Pu-239 wrote:
Uraniun235 wrote:Outlook's not too bad so long as you kill the preview pane
That's a pretty serious deficiency.

*shrug* There are pretty serious deficiencies in Windows, but I still find it a more useable OS than others, and that's generally the important thing.

As long as verilon is responsible enough to remain aware of the deficiencies and make sure his machine has a low chance of being compromised by them, he should be fine.

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-07-08 03:04am

Well, Opera's mail client is ok.. Don't like the whole text e-mail thing, though. -shrugs- Oh, well, I can deal. It's not like the e-mail addresses I'm going to be using for it *require* HTML e-mails.