I changed one of my everyday software programs this week. I wrote about a year ago concerning Eudora OSE (Open Source Edition), a new open-source version of Eudora that is based on the Thunderbird email program from the Mozilla Foundation. After a few days of running my old Eudora program in parallel with Eudora OSE, [...]
Thunderbird to the Rescue!
Thunderbird, from the Mozilla Foundation and sometimes called Mozilla Thunderbird, is my new email program of choice. I had tried Thunderbird several years ago, but didn’t use it because I couldn’t do some of the things that I did with Eudora. About a year ago, I switched from Eudora to Eudora OSE, which was built [...]
Eudora Open Source Edition (Eudora OSE) Followup
I started using Eudora Open Source Edition as soon as I knew that it was available (A First Look at Eudora OSE). Within days, I stopped running a parallel version with my earlier Eudora version, and began using Eudora OSE as my primary email program. That was last November. Since then, I’ve continued with Eudora [...]
Email Security When Using Wireless Networking
Email security is critical when you use wireless networking. When you use wireless networking at home, if you haven’t set your wireless router and wireless adapters to use the best encryption they will support (currently WPA2 for most personal wireless devices), you don’t have a secure system. You are broadcasting your data unencrypted or with [...]
New Eudora OSE eMail Program Released
I got a surprise this week. I’d been keeping tabs on the new version of Eudora, which is based on the Thunderbird email program from the Mozilla Foundation along with the user interface from the Eudora program that I have used for years. It just got released as Eudora OSE (Eudora Open Source Edition). I [...]
Keeping spam Out of Your Mailbox
Now, how can I ignore those spam emails? How can I keep them out of my Inbox? We’ve all tried the old way – using a "block the sender" function. Basically, this is a specific filter (called a "rule" by some programs) that says "if an email comes from him, put it in the spam [...]
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