Unfortunately, I have to support some PCs running old Eudora 7.1. It's a long story for a very unusual client.
Eudora 7.1 runs fine in Windows 10 (22H2 and prior versions) but this customer is getting ready to buy Windows 11 PCs.
Various helpful online posts provided enough info to make Eudora work in Windows 11. Whew.
Here are steps I cobbled together from scattered online posts. They might help the dozen or so remaining Eudora 7.1 users forced into Windows 11.
After installing Eudora (with default locations, though installing in the root might be best), the following 3 things made Eudora work:
(1) updated Eudora 7.1's SSL by downloading HermSSL.zip from HERMES Mail - Browse Files at SourceForge.net expanded the zip and ran vcredist.exe, which created another folder, then exited Eudora and copied libeay32.dll QCSSL.dll rootcerts.p7b and ssleay32.dll from the new folder made by vcredist.exe to Eudora's program folder and "replaced" if prompted.
(2) enabled the "Ports" feature in Eudora by exiting Eudora, copying esoteric.epi from Eudora's "extrastuff" folder to Eudora's main folder, then starting Eudora and going to Tools, Options and scrolling way down to "Ports."
(3) for gmail (maybe necessary for other email providers, too), created an app-specific password in the gmail acct for use in Eudora because gmail won't trust ancient Eudora with regular gmail user/password credentials even without 2FA enabled; tested with IMAP and POP3 email ok (only problem was some delays in Eudora when deleting email in the wimpy test PC running Windows 11; that might not happen on more powerful Windows 11 PC).
NOTE: you might have to run Eudora 7.1 as adminstrator (either right-click or change the Eudora shortcut's Properties: Shortcut, Advanced, Run as administrator)
When this customer finally retires, I'll never have to support Eudora 7.1 again.
PS Eudora users are obsessed with its search feature, which to me doesn't seem superior to modern search features in browser-based email like gmail.
PPS Eudora 7.1 and previous versions have a critical design flaw that's a nightmare: it mixes drafts and sent mail in the same "Outbox" (folder/mailbox) and therefore needs a separate db file to keep track of which emails were sent and also which have various user-applied labels; the db gets corrupted about once every year or two; creating a fresh db file often loses track of which emails were sent and also loses user-applied labeling, leaving the user to wade through the Outbox to try to remember which are which.
Ugh.
Eudora 7.1 runs fine in Windows 10 (22H2 and prior versions) but this customer is getting ready to buy Windows 11 PCs.
Various helpful online posts provided enough info to make Eudora work in Windows 11. Whew.
Here are steps I cobbled together from scattered online posts. They might help the dozen or so remaining Eudora 7.1 users forced into Windows 11.
After installing Eudora (with default locations, though installing in the root might be best), the following 3 things made Eudora work:
(1) updated Eudora 7.1's SSL by downloading HermSSL.zip from HERMES Mail - Browse Files at SourceForge.net expanded the zip and ran vcredist.exe, which created another folder, then exited Eudora and copied libeay32.dll QCSSL.dll rootcerts.p7b and ssleay32.dll from the new folder made by vcredist.exe to Eudora's program folder and "replaced" if prompted.
(2) enabled the "Ports" feature in Eudora by exiting Eudora, copying esoteric.epi from Eudora's "extrastuff" folder to Eudora's main folder, then starting Eudora and going to Tools, Options and scrolling way down to "Ports."
(3) for gmail (maybe necessary for other email providers, too), created an app-specific password in the gmail acct for use in Eudora because gmail won't trust ancient Eudora with regular gmail user/password credentials even without 2FA enabled; tested with IMAP and POP3 email ok (only problem was some delays in Eudora when deleting email in the wimpy test PC running Windows 11; that might not happen on more powerful Windows 11 PC).
NOTE: you might have to run Eudora 7.1 as adminstrator (either right-click or change the Eudora shortcut's Properties: Shortcut, Advanced, Run as administrator)
When this customer finally retires, I'll never have to support Eudora 7.1 again.
PS Eudora users are obsessed with its search feature, which to me doesn't seem superior to modern search features in browser-based email like gmail.
PPS Eudora 7.1 and previous versions have a critical design flaw that's a nightmare: it mixes drafts and sent mail in the same "Outbox" (folder/mailbox) and therefore needs a separate db file to keep track of which emails were sent and also which have various user-applied labels; the db gets corrupted about once every year or two; creating a fresh db file often loses track of which emails were sent and also loses user-applied labeling, leaving the user to wade through the Outbox to try to remember which are which.
Ugh.
- Windows Build/Version
- Windows 11 Pro / 22H2
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11
