Apparently, Messaging Architects posted a message on its home page warning MyRealBox account holders to contact the company in some fashion or have their accounts revoked by such and such a date. All of my messages to customer service to find out about this went completely unanswered. The message noted that the time was up for notifying MyRealBox that you wanted to continue your account. I saw the box for the first time when I visited the site after my accounts were closed. I’m piecing together what might have happened, based mostly on a terse message box that appeared on the MyRealBox home page a couple of months ago. And worse, I advised SFNL readers several years ago to grab a MyRealBox account - and I know many did. I don’t even have a list of every site I registered to with my MyRealBox account. I used one of those accounts as my primary subscription account for hundreds of newsletters and websites. MyRealBox, the free email service once provided by Novell’s NetMail development team, was totally mishandled by Messaging Architects, the company that purchased NetMail from Novell on January 30.Īfter years of reliable service, my three MyRealBox accounts went dead without warning a couple of months ago. Posted in Email, Software - Mac, Software - Windows | 12 Comments » Some fresh thinking is definitely a good thing. But Eudora in general is best thought of in 2001 terms. The Windows version surpassed the Mac version quite a while ago and is more up to date. Eudora has been a hurting unit for several years - especially on the Mac platform, where some of the thinking has been quirky at best. Also, though, they’re not afraid to make changes. What I like best, in fact, is that while the plan is to start with a subset of Eudora features in the first release, the developers clearly know and love Eudora. I came away very excited about IDS’s plans, design concepts, and goals. I spent a few hours earlier today reading through IDS’s Odysseus forums learning as much as I could about the company’s development plans. It will offer cross-platform support for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Unlike Mozilla’s Penelope (Eudora v.8) development project, which is attempting to surgically graft Eudora-like functionality onto Mozilla’s Thunderbird email package, Odysseus is being rewritten from the ground up as the brand new successor to Eudora. But at least I’m not corrupting data in my mailstore while the search goes on.Īs a capper, Microsoft is talking about upgrading Entourage to be more of an Outlook for the Mac, and that sounds interesting too.Ī new email package called Odysseus being developed by software design house Infinity Data Systems (IDS) is the new great hope for millions of Qualcomm Eudora users who were abandoned by the telecom company last year. I still want to replace Eudora - after all, it’s unsupported. Eudora can run for days and days without crashing in Snow Leopard. In other news, although I’ve been searching for a Eudora replacement for five years, the search accelerated after Qualcomm severed ties and intensified after Leopard was released and Eudora started crashing in every session lasting longer than 3 hours. And at the rate they’re going, it’ll be 2014 by the time they get MailForge anywhere near where I need it. The developers don’t apparently understand why people used Eudora. I’ve pretty much given up on MailForge (formerly Odysseus), despite having bought a license in advance. It’s still not my favorite product, but it beats virtually everything else I’ve tried for the Mac. It’s a lot less quirky than Entourage 2004, too. I’m using Entourage 2008 at work now, and with extensive use of AppleScripts, it comes as close to Eudora in power as I’ve been able to find. More in the ongoing saga of Scot’s ridiculous email situation.
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