The Bottom Line
Pros
- Eudora filters spam effectively and easily, alerts you about deceptive URLs in phishing emails
- Fast index search finds any email fast in Eudora (Windows only)
- Eudora is rock-solid and rich in powerful features for efficient email use
Cons
- Eudora does not offer smart folders (though you can save search criteria)
- It would be nice if Eudora could use its Bayesian filtering engine to automatically classify mail
- Eudora's remote content privacy protection could be improved
Description
- Eudora handles multiple POP and IMAP accounts.
- Powerful filters, labels and a flexible template system for replies help you handle email in Eudora.
- Eudora includes fast email search, and the "Content Concentrator" trims quoted text.
- Integrated "SpamWatch" Bayesian spam filtering cans junk precisely and with little effort in Eudora.
- Eudora's "ScamWatch" alerts you about suspicious links in phishing emails.
- Another feature dubbed "BossWatch" helps you avoid sending mail to bosses or clients inadvertently.
- You can read and send richly formatted HTML emails, but Eudora has solid plain text features, too.
- Eudora Sharing Protocol can automatically synchronize files and folders via email.
- Eudora gimmicks: usage statistics, offensive vocabulary alert, contextual filing, graphical smileys.
- Eudora supports Windows 98/ME/2000/3/XP/Vista and Mac OS X.
Guide Review - Eudora 7.1 Email Program
Eudora lets you read and write emails in style, of course. Eudora's message rules are versatile, and it's easy to eliminate spam using the precise Bayesian filter, dubbed "SpamWatch". "ScamWatch" looks for spoofed URLs in phishing emails that want to trick you into handing sensitive data to criminals. ScamWatch fares pretty well but does not catch all fraud attempts, so it still pays to be alert.
The same applies to "BossWatch", which alerts you when you're about to send mail to certain domains. Finding mail is solved elegantly and fast with X1 index search.
While you can block Eudora from loading remote content in emails automatically, more flexible controls would be nice. Eudora comes with a flexible template system for canned replies, the "Eudora Sharing Protocol" (ESP) is a very easy to use, albeit proprietary, way to sync files automatically, and the content concentrator trims quoted text nicely.
It's really a pity that Eudora doesn't come with integrated secure messaging, and it would be nice if Eudora could use its Bayesian engine to automatically sort mail.
