[WinPartners] xp vs eudora again

[Mike Hobbs]

Eudora is an awful piece of software.  I don't know why people insist on 
using it as their email client.  Here in MTL we have the exact same 
problem your all describing.  I wish IS&T would move away from this 
email client and move to something else.  We have a handful of users 
here who use it but we try and convince users to migrate to Thunderbird, 
it is a much better email client.

mike

Philip R Thompson wrote:
> Yes, eudora crashes all the time for us in DUSP too.  I am begining to 
> move users to Mozilla Thunderbird.  Release 6 seems worse in terms of 
> crashing than version 5 and I'm giving up on it.
> 
> -Philip
> 
> Aran M. Parillo wrote:
> 
>> Greetings,
>>
>> It seems that every other new machine install I do, users report 
>> having repeated Eudora crashes.  Fresh XP installs, service pack 2, 
>> using the 6.2.1 installer and picking up the users eudora folder 
>> during setup.
>>
>> The trend I see in the exceptions log are two files presenting access 
>> violations.  (MFC42.DLL and MSCTF.dll both reside in \windows\system32)
>>
>> Searching the web for answers, I see a vague mention of 'renaming' at 
>> least MFC42 and reinstalling eudora... but what of MSCTF?  Are these 
>> access violations just a permissions issue?  Any advice/feedback here 
>> would be appreciated.
>>
>> <windows bashing>
>> I have to note that it's embarrassing to have owners of new systems 
>> complain about crashy programs which on their previous systems were 
>> rock solid... I can honestly count the number of eudora crashes on my 
>> os x system on one hand... in I only need my thumb to count them... 
>> for these unlucky XP/eudora users - their logs show multiple daily 
>> crashes.
>> </windows bashing>
>>
>> TIA
>> -amp
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