![]() ![]() Depending on your version(s), you may find differences in the dialogues and steps. I think that was around the time Windows 7 launched. ![]() Of note, Eudora has a patched QCSSL.dll, needed since Microsoft made some changes to a library that caused the old client to loop for a Very… Long… Time… on the first use of SSL. My Eudora is version 7.1.0.9 running on Windows 8.1 Update 1. This time it affected a multiple accounts on different domains. These were more important to me so I needed a solution.įirst, some groundwork. Last night Eudora rejected more certificates. I really do need to find a new client! Maybe tomorrow… Yeah, right. Finally I just shut off SSL for the account and got on with life. Along the way I cast about for a replacement client and I came up dry. They’d suggest something, I’d try it – and maybe try a few things on my own – but nothing worked. It wasn’t my host, and it wasn’t a critical account. Via trouble tickets, I went back and forth with the admins at the hosting company for the better part of a month. When it does, Eudora offers to trust the new certificate. One afternoon in October last year one of my email hosts suddenly rejected its SSL certificate. It’s always gone the same way: I find none, get tired of searching, and turn my attention to propping the old girl up just a bit longer. More than a few times I’ve cast about for another capable email client. But IMHO they went and screwed it up.Īs with any unsupported software, sometimes the passage of time breaks things. Since then I’ve developed a rather extensive set of filters and such to efficiently manage dozens of email accounts and tens of GB of messages.īummer, Eudora hasn’t been actively supported since Qualcomm gave it up in 2006. Eudora was the first client I discovered whose message store was a simple transfer from Unix, drop-in, and run. I chose it when I was moving my message store from a shell account to a PC, right around when PCs started to get reliable enough such work. I’ve used this old and outdated Windows mail client since it was kind of new, more than 25 years ago. Septem– I’ve revised this article, simplifying and shortening the steps involved! ![]()
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