ping unwanted mail directly in the trash can. The Eudora address book has been enhanced, adding fields for fax and phone numbers. Qualcomm has also improved the program's handling of mail list groups.
The mail filtering system is a godsend to anyone who spends much of the day trying to swim to the surface of the e-mail flood. Choose the Filter option from the Tools menu and you can set rules for scanning incoming mail with up to two conditions in any part of a message's header or body. You can select five different actions for each message, including tossing the message into the trash, sorting a mail list item into its own folder, or using a form letter to respond automatically to requests. For example, you can create one filter that searches for the word "hel
p" in message bodies, then autorespond with a message that says help is on the way. As e-mail rule systems go, it's impressive.
New in 3.0 are templates called stationery files, useful for sending the same message over and over. Sending price lists, directions, or any canned response is easy with these templates. Also new is the Extended Messaging Service Application Programming Interface (EMSAPI), which can support e-mail client plug-in modules that may eventually do things like encrypt or decrypt plain text messages, generate digital signatures for your own messages or verify digitally signed messages, run compression routines, or analyze message content. Unfortunately, though EMSAPI sounds impressive, only Qualcomm supports this proprietary standard at the moment, and only with very simple text-formatting plug-ins.
That Eudora is a robust, bug-free program should not be surprising considering Qualcomm's claimed 10 million users; if that number is accurate, Eudora is the most popular Internet e-mail
client on the planet. I found the freeware version to have all the features I need. If you want a 32-bit mail application with powerful filtering functions, a configurable toolbar, the ability to handle e-mail from more than one POP account, an enhanced address book, and more, then Eudora Pro 3.0 is an excellent choice.
Where to Find
Eudora Pro 3.0 for Windows....................$89 ($69 via Eudora Web site)
(Windows 3.1 for 16-bit Eudora;
Windows 95 or NT 3.5 for 32-bit Eudora;
Internet e-mail account and WinSock
1.1-compliant networking software)
Qualcomm Inc., Eudora Division
San Diego, CA
Phone: (800) 238-3672
Phone: (619) 587-1121
E-mail:
eudora-rep@eudora.com
Internet:
http://www.eudora.com
Circle 1058 on Inquiry Card.
Eudorable Web Mail
