Except copying a pst still requires thde other computer to have outlook installed. And you still have to enter server settings etc when you copy a pst or data folder. The idea of portability is that you copy the folder and the program starts without need of an install routine
In that light, outlook is definitely not portable Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -----Original Message----- From: "Carroll Kong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:47:57 To:"'The Hardware List'" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [H] Had to happen sooner or later. Man do I feel old! Wow, about time. I used Eudora 3.0.5 and loved it to death when I used POP exclusively. When they finally learned multi-threading before any other vendor, it was fantastic for downloading HWG mail. Not sure if that came about in 3 or 4. All I know I remember was Eudora 4 was a love-hate relationship. It had pitiful IMAP performance (and I started to like IMAP a lot) and multithreading (which was really handy back). I loved the look and feel of Eudora, but it lost everything in stability as it coupled deeply with HTML rendering. (This should always be an option to be turned explicitly off. Oddly enough, I think Microsoft Outlook is one of the few ones that lets you do this easily). Eudora 4 and later never had the same level of reliability for me. I keep my email app running all day long and I was on a few mailing lists. For whatever reason, Eudora 4.X could not survive the type of workflow I was doing with my email. As for portability, Outlook and Thunderbird lets you move email from one machine to another with either a PST or copying a subdirectory in your Documents and Settings/username over to any other machine. It does not appear that much harder than the nice "copy the entire D:\Eudora" directory bit if you ask me. IMAP is the real protocol for portability, yet Eudora STILL had pitiful performance with it the last I checked. Pegasus and Thunderbird both outperformed it and Thunderbird is probably the most reliable IMAP reader I have yet to encounter. So, I find the entire "eudora is more portable" arguable not quite true. Without reliable IMAP it is less portable, and exporting/importing PSTs or copying a local setting subdir of Thunderbird seems to be of the same level of ease as copying a hardcoded directory from one machine to another. Without a high performance IMAP like Outlook, it's far less fun to use in a truly portable environment. Good riddance if you ask me. - Carroll Kong > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:24 AM > To: Hardware List > Subject: [H] Had to happen sooner or later. Man do I feel old! > > Mozilla to free up Eudora > > http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3637356 >
