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by eltoozero 2947 days ago
In 1999-2001 when I was doing dialup tech support, running into a customer with Eudora was a dream compared to the nightmare of basically any other contemporary mail client around: Outlook and Outlook Express. EarthLink even made their own abomination of a mail client called Total Access, IIRC it could import and export Eudora dbs.
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Or, if you lived in Eastern Europe, The Bat1[1] - and it is still actively supported!

I switched to Opera Mail because it was convenient to have the browser and email client in one software (which is also freeware), but that went with the Chropera move.

[1]https://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/

The Bat was quite nice! I used it for a while but finally switched to the Japanese client "Becky Mail", ugly but quite functional. I still have some backups in a zip drive I should restore...
> some backups in a zip drive

Hehe, I have one of those, too. But unfortunately it is an external drive, and none of the computers I own have a parallel port...

"Are you using Microsoft Lookout?"

-Why they took me off phone support

Funny, because from around 2004 onward I'd say the opposite. Eudora was universally reviled at the help desk I worked at.