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Eudora 7: Highly Evolved Email Power New version is a must-upgrade, unique features make it worth the switch

Another favorite feature of Eudora is the ability to color-code messages, where you can have the headers for messages in your inbox color-coded red according to filters that you?ve pre-designated. For example, for messages from the boss, you can have them color coded red. After you?ve received certain e-mail messages, you can mark them certain colors to flag action items, and you can even place buttons in the toolbar that place this color-coding capability within easy reach. There?s also an extensive filtering system, where you can place received e-mails with certain keywords or phrases into specific e-mail boxes. The sophisticated filtering and labeling system in Eudora is highly evolved and has proven itself to be useful in a surprisingly varied number of situations.
One downside of Eudora that I?ve noticed is that it?s not perfectly capable of interpreting all HTML that it receives. For some reason, some apostrophes and dashes can?t be properly read in the Eudora viewer, even though it?s using Microsoft?s viewer to display HTML. It?s also slightly annoying the way it?s not possible to redirect or forward a message and retain the exact HTML that was received.

Those gripes aside, Eudora?s ability to warn you if you click on a link that is not what it?s purported to be is a lifesaver. For instance, if you receive an message that asks you to update your PayPal information, and you click on the included bogus link, Eudora will since this and tell you that all is not what it appears to be, and that the link you?re clicking on has nothing whatsoever to do with PayPal. This is smart stuff, and can certainly save some email users from themselves. 

Eudora is an immensely powerful and unusually capable email software package that I would recommend to anyone, whether they are upgrading to it from a previous version or switching from Microsoft Outlook or others. Ironically, one tremendous advantage of Eudora is that it?s not the most popular email software, rendering it immune to the variety of exploits that have been custom-programmed for Microsoft?s email software. Beyond that, Eudora is easy to use for the uninitiated, but packs plenty of power underneath for the experts. Highly recommended. 9.5 out of 10 stars.

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