![]() My experience has been depressing.Īs one of the many long-time Eudora users who are completely happy with it but have begun looking at possible future alternatives for the time when Rosetta is no longer available, I allowed myself to be seduced by the stated intention of the developers of MailForge, to emulate Eudora in every way. Maybe the Intel Mac users are happy with it. I commend the work and the effort, and I realize it's very difficult to duplicate Eudora from scratch on multiple platforms. It does appear, however, that the software author has been working hard on this email client for a couple of years now. In my opinion, MailForge is still beta software for G4/PPC/Tiger users. I really don't think you care about this. I think you're not really trying to duplicate it using a Brother laser printer, a G4/MDD PPC, and Tiger. In the past, Matt has claimed they can't duplicate these problems. These are not obscure bugs, but very basic to everyday functionality bugs that result in MailForge being unusable to me on a serious level. I so wanted MailForge to be able to replace Eudora. ![]() I am now coming to the conclusion that bug fixes will not be made for Tiger or PPC Macs. MailForge is the only application I have ever used that does this, and I am not the only user who has complained about this in the last year. Nothing happens, except that I have to force quit MailForge to get out of what appears to be a software loop. (2) I still cannot print from MailForge 2.0.7 to my Brother HL-5240 laser printer. The current level of date sorting is a mess-completely useless for me. I cannot depend on an email application that can't correctly sort by date. The emails will correctly sort by name but not by date. In MailForge, they all get dumped into the same IN box. I like the Eudora-like interface.įor example: Here are two major MailForge 2.0.7 problems that bother be a lot on a dual G4/MDD PPC running Tiger 10.4.11: As a G4/PPC/Tiger user, this software is not usable for me as my main email client. I am a long-term Eudora user and have worked with MailForge since its early versions. The log file "DebugLog.txt" did not contain any useful information (the last line was the subject of the last e-mail imported). The error dialog box announcing that "MailForge had to quit" referred to some object that could not be found. Note that the program quit, did not crash, so there was no system crash report from OS X. It's an "all or nothing" proposition.Ģ - No way to import selected mailboxes, or for MailForge to recognize that some mailboxes have already been imported, are current, and don't need to be re-imported.ģ - No crash report. There is no "stop" button (and obviously no "restart" button following a stop). Long conversion time not a big deal, progress bars show what is going on.ġ - No way to gracefully stop importing. Note: mailboxes were not compacted, and the "extended" import was used since many are in a foreign language, so admittedly, not ideal conditions. The program "had to quit" after about 12 hours of importing e-mails. About 1GB of e-mails, 5GB of attachments, very good test for my "true" e-mail folder. I downloaded 3.0 and tried it on an old MBP 10.6.8 with a Eudora folder only a few months out of date. I hope to increase the rating very shortly. ![]() MailForge is available for $19.95 per user, with discounted rates for volume customers. For those interested in future development of MailForge While MailForge already has a wide range of features, in the coming weeks and months we will be working hard to continue adding a large number of significant features and abilities to the program. Even routine tasks, such as moving tens of thousands of emails from one mailbox to another, takes only seconds. Harnessing the power of SQLite, MailForge also offers significant performance advantages, ranging from the ability to have a virtually unlimited number of emails in a single mailbox, to search capabilities that offer near instantaneous results. MailForge was built from the ground up for OS X and designed to be a power user's email client, providing users with a host of features not commonly found in other email programs, such as the ability to edit every facet of received emails, scheduled sending of email, tabbed or multi-window interface, HTML vs text options, menu navigation of mailboxes, etc. Note: MailForge is no longer being actively developed.
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